Perhaps the demodularizer could be used to produce a single .zo file,
and the script could simply start it?

    http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/demod.html?q=raco

/Jens Axel




2015-01-14 22:36 GMT+01:00 Norman Gray <nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk>:
>
> Leif, hello.
>
>> On 2015 Jan 14, at 18:46, Leif Andersen <l...@leifandersen.net> wrote:
>>
>> If you want it to be a single file script you can execute, you can just make 
>> your file be:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env racket
>> #lang racket/base
>>
>> (module foo racket/base
>>   (provide x)
>>   (define x 5))
>>
>> (module bar racket/base
>>   (require (submod ".." foo))
>>   (display x))
>>
>> (require 'foo 'bar)
>
> Well, yes, that's what I've done, with an exec trampoline at the top, but I 
> think I'd prefer to keep the various modules separate in a more traditional 
> fashion, to make testing and so on easier.  Hence rewriting the various 
> (require "foo.rkt") and concatenating them in dependency order.  It's not 
> pretty (I can just sense, and indeed share, Jay's distaste for sed-ding a 
> Racket source file, from here!), but it seems robust, and has the 
> straightforwardness of a single-file 'executable', without the 
> hammer-to-crack-a-nut of 'raco exe' (though disk space is cheap, of course; 
> and in my case it's only 6MB, so what's the odds....).
>
> Anyway: I was stumbling towards this solution, and thought that I was surely 
> not the first person to want this, but couldn't find anything analogous in 
> the sections on starting Racket, so thought I must be missing something.
>
> I suspect that what was in my head was something like Java's .jar file: a zip 
> file containing a bundle of compiled files in a single artefact, which needs 
> a separate executable to run, but which is boneheadedly easy to manage.
>
> Thanks, all, for your various observations.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Norman
>
>
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