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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to racket-...@googlegroups.com. 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.
