FWIW, there is now a similar page running at Northwestern: http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/
Robby On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > Here's a rough cut at a snapshot build with the new package > organization: > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/20130702-c90365e/ > > While there are plenty of rough edges, enough is in place to show how I > see distributions and packages working with the new organization. > > The snapshot page has > > * "Racket" installers with the usual stuff: DrRacket, HtDP support, > etc. > > * "Minimal Racket" installers for just the core build. > > Each Minimal installer is configured to refer back to the snapshot site > for package installations; each package that is included in the > distribution is available from the snapshot site in pre-built form. (If > a package is not available from the snapshot site, then a package > search will continue with "pkg.racket-lang.org", etc.) > > For example, starting with with a Minimal installation and running > `raco pkg install -i --deps search-auto gui' gets you `racket/gui' in > compiled form (in about 1 minute on my machine), along with the > necessary native libraries, the `gracket' launcher, documentation, and > so on. > > [Using `-u' or `-s' doesn't yet work, because the installation-wide > catalog configuration is not used as the default for `-u' or `-s'. > I'll fix that.] > > After installing `gui', then `raco pkg install -i --deps search-auto > drracket' gets you DrRacket (in about 30 seconds). > > [Unfortunately, the `drraccket' step also deletes some documentation > that was installed by the `gui' step, so I have more work to do > there, too.] > > > I image that releases will ultimately work the same way: installers > will be configured to start with a catalog server that provides > pre-built packages compatible with the release --- and those packages > will be the responsibility of the distribution server, not > "pkg.racket-lang.org". > > The set of packages available in pre-built form need not be just the > ones in a distribution. The choice of available pre-built packages is > separate from the choice of packages into include in a distribution, so > pre-built packages can be available and useful for a "Racket" installer > as well as a "Minimal Racket" installer. I expect that our release and > snapshot sites will provide pre-built versions of all ring-0 packages. > > [A piece that's missing: online documentation as a fall-back for > installed documentation. For example, suppose you install "gui", > search installed documentation for "WXME", go to the "WXME Decoding" > section, find "htdp" on that page, and click `htdp/image'. Then, you > get a link that goes back to the snapshot site (because you don't > have the relevant package installed), which is as intended. But the > link doesn't yet give you documentation.] > > > I expect to make > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/ > > updated daily or so with a new snapshot (and a front page that points > to the latest snapshot). Each snapshot will be available for some > amount of time (a week?) to serve packages before it is removed. > > That's not to say that "www.cs.utah.edu" will be home to the main > PLT-provided snapshots, but I imagine that it will be around as an > option. The process is designed to make it as easy as possible set up > extra snapshot sites. > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >
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