Is there some lower-level module of mzscheme's that could be shared (say, #%kernel or something) and then have scheme/base be re-instantiated in the new namespace that planet creates?
Robby On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Matthew Flatt<mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:31:17 -0500, Robby Findler wrote: >> At this point, it seemed to me that it would be hopeless to try to get >> the original values of the scheme/base parameters (specifically >> current-compile), > > I think we should work on making this possible. A program might set all > sorts of parameters before (dynamically) requiring a Planet path. Those > settings should apply while loading the package's modules after it's > installed, but they shouldn't affect installation of the package. > Installation should always act the same --- as if a completely new > OS-level process was started to install the package. > > I don't immediately know how to make that work (without actually > starting a process), but that seems like the right path. > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
