At Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:12:54 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Regardless of that, though, I think we should switch to updating only > "main-distribution" (and perhaps "main-distribution-tests"). I doubt > people expect `make` in the Racket source tree to update their > software somewhere else on their machine -- I certainly would be very > unpleasantly surprised if that happened to me when rebuilding some > other language I had installed.
I have trouble seeing the comparison to other software. I don't know of anything else with an in-place build option, where you can install or link additional packages in place, and you can also pull core updates, and somehow it all works. The examples I have seen are all more like `make unix-style`, where there's a clear separation of the source and the installed form. In that case, the issues we're looking at here don't come up. Does another system have a Racket-like in-place option (that works better)? At Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:40:36 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > Speaking as the user I am, I really like it that make updates > my extra-pkgs. Package scope provides one a way to get these different behaviors. The current `make` updates only packages that are in installation scope, and it also sets installation scope to be the default, so that's why `make` tends to update everything that is installed. Maybe Sam should install additional packages in user scope, and then `make` won't try to update them. Another possibility is that the packages installed by `make` should go into a scope that's even deeper than installation scope. That's how the pre-split organization worked, and I sometimes think that we should go back to that. But it's more complex, and it would work less well for Matthias and others who benefit from the current `make` behavior. Overall, my sense is that the current defaults work right for people with the least expertise, but we can refine our tools to provide options to people with more expertise. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/20150217234131.86F396501B8%40mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
