(Not directly related to Rhombus) Speaking of “how to contribute”, I find that it is not friendly at all to setup stuff in order to contribute to Racket core and main distribution. According to https://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/09/tutorial-contributing-to-racket.html, if I want to make a change to, say, https://github.com/racket/math, I should start with:
$ raco pkg update --no-setup --catalog https://pkgs.racket-lang.org math $ raco pkg update --clone math The estimated time to run the above two commands is ONE HOUR! The second command in particular seems to compile every Racket packages (why does it need to do that?!?) which takes a lot of time. I really feel turned off by the thought of having to wait for one hour (with my laptop becoming very hot from CPU usage at 100%, and I can’t really do other work that has heavy computation during this period). So I usually skip this step, but that also means I can’t test my PR locally. Instead, I need to rely on CI to catch any mistake that I made. The obvious drawback is that it generates a lot of noises to people watching the repo and some repos don’t even have CI setup… (In some cases, I can test locally by isolating the changes to a new Racket program, but that’s not always possible.) Is it possible to improve this somehow? On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:48 PM Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:46:50 -0400, David Storrs wrote: > > In related news, a question for the list: Once I have a handle on this, > I > > would like to write a "How to Contribute to Racket Documentation" guide. > > Where would be the right place for this? Should it be an expansion to an > > existing document (if so, which), an entirely new one, or...? > > I suggest making it part of "Building, Distributing, and Contributing > to Racket": > > https://docs.racket-lang.org/racket-build-guide/index.html > > which is also rendered as > > https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/build.md > > > The source is > > https://github.com/racket/racket/tree/master/pkgs/racket-build-guide > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/5ea9f62b.1c69fb81.d0413.1033SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CADcuegsVu9Je%3D_7Md3aD1nC5DEyKV__7_i3oHadZk5168nX87A%40mail.gmail.com.
