Short question: Is there a way to separate the gui-requiring parts of plot from the non-gui-requiring parts?
Long question: Many people have expressed pleasant surprise with the plot-evaluating ability of the racket pastebin Sam and I are working on. Most of the effort is due to scribble's nice sandbox evaluation capabilities but to get it fully working, I had to hack the plot library in my racket install. The problem is that plot uses racket/gui/base too eagerly but the server has no display, resulting in a gtk initialization error. I ultimately got around it by just commenting out all the gui parts of plot, knowing that it would never get invoked, but obviously this is an ugly solution. I should say that I don't think plot is at fault. The plot library does lazy-require racket/gui/base but that's not good enough because the laziness has to propagate to other requires that also require racket/gui/base (ie plot/snip) which isnt the case. But this cannot work anyways because lazy-require only works with functions and some of the things imported by plot/snip are classes. I spent awhile trying to separate the gui-requiring parts of plot but was unsuccessful. Maybe the change has to be in racket/gui/base itself (related to PR 12465) I don't really know. I guess I'm just looking for additional insight. Naively, slideshow/pict and 2htdp/draw do not have this problem so it seemed like it should be possible. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
