I repent. While a reversible (install/uninstall) system-wide build / install from source has some value in cases, I now doubt there is adequate ROEMOF, return on effort and maintenance of feature.
Overall, for me, a trimmer "core" Racket installation is for more valuable. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday, Ray Racine wrote: > > On installation issues: > > > > 1) Yes on defaulting to an installation-wide install as default. > > Matthew didn't suggest this as a default for all cases -- but just to > be clear: an installation-wide as default is not something that is > always better. In fact, it is in many cases worse. For example, on > Linux (and probably on OSX) you can end up with permission errors, > which can easily lead people down the usual path of sudo-ing the > command which now means running random code as root (and most people > would do a sudo since that doesn't require reading more, and will miss > whatever flags are needed for private installation). Another example > is what can happen on Windows -- wither get some intimidating popup > telling you about changing system directories, or worse, get the > "feature" of windows pretending to save files in the right place but > really putting them in your own directory. > > > > 3) Many (even most) of the collections library are non-core and IMHO > > should be evicted out into separate github hosted projects with > > drop-dead simple installation via Planet2 on demand. I know this > > sounds harsh, but collects is over due for a healthy paring, if not > > a full blown gastric by-pass. > > Absolutely. There are many sub-packages in the core now that got in > based on the assumption that they'll turn into independent packages. > There are also some people (ahem) who were screaming for ages about > bad spaghetti dependency graphs which will cause huge problems when > trying to get to a small core. > > (/me does an image query for "repent".) > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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