Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:06 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On 07/13/13 20:56, Matthew Flatt wrote: > [...] > > ** Downloading release installers from PLT > > > > The "www.racket-lang.org" site's big blue button will provide the same > > installers that it does now, at least by defa

[racket-dev] documentation dependencies & indirect hyperlinks

2013-07-14 Thread Matthew Flatt
Documentation hyperlinks are now covered by the package-dependency checking of `raco setup'. Dependencies that take the form of `for-label' imports were found by normal module-dependency checking, already. The new checks cover cases where a document refers to another document via `other-doc' or `@

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks! (For one, I found the "From Back There to Here" section particularly helpful.) On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Here's a big-picture update of where we are in the new package system > and the conversion of the Racket distribution to use packages. > > This message

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Matthew Flatt
> At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:06 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > On 07/13/13 20:56, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > [...] > > > ** Downloading release installers from PLT > > > > > > The "www.racket-lang.org" site's big blue button will provide the same > > > installers that it does now, at

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
First, thanks for the very informative update. On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > [Guess:] The "Racket" and "Minimal Racket" distributions might point > to different pre-built package catalogs. Possibly, the "Racket" > catalog never updates packages that were included in the

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:02:28 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > First, thanks for the very informative update. > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > [Guess:] The "Racket" and "Minimal Racket" distributions might point > > to different pre-built package catalogs. Possibly,

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:02:28 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > But when you run `raco pkg install' or `raco pkg update', then the > package details are not necessarily determined by > "pkg.racket-lang.org". The package might be downloaded

Re: [racket-dev] Why did DrDr get much slower?

2013-07-14 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:55:20 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > wrote: > > > > This slowdown seems to be real on my machine as well -- > > realm/chapter2/source.rkt runs more than twice as slow in rev bd09a60e > > as it does in v5.3.5. I'm

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Jay McCarthy
See below Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > First, thanks for the very informative update. > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> [Guess:] The "Racket" and "Minimal Racket" distributions might point >> to different pre-built pac

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread toganm
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:00:14 -0600, Matthew Flatt > said: >> At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:06 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: >> > On 07/13/13 20:56, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> > [...] > > ** Downloading release installers from PLT >> > > >> > > The "www.racke

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On 07/14/13 15:00, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:06 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: On 07/13/13 20:56, Matthew Flatt wrote: [...] ** Downloading release installers from PLT The "www.racket-lang.org" site's big blue button will provide the same installers that it d

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-14 Thread Greg Hendershott
As one of those people on the periphery, wanted to share some feedback. I hope it's not so high-level that it's vague and annoying. 1. Racket has a wonderful story about simple installation. On Windows, Mac, Linux, you download one file, run it, and it's all set up and good to go in < 1 minute. (