The explanation happened at the wrong level. Time to bring in Shriram
and throw this problem at Alloy. Or something like that :-)
On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
On Apr 27, Michael Sperber wrote:
Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> writes:
* This is in iplt/build/distribution-specs.
The problem is that this documents the specs *as they are*, rather
than as you'd like to see them. How would it have helped me figure
out there's a problem?
By the fact that it's added to the `dr' distribution -- that implies
that drscheme depends on it. BTW, the part for packages is pretty
simple -- the main mess is in the overall rules for the system.
(Initially I even thought about putting package specific rules in the
packages info files or some other meta-file local to the package
directory.)
* Yes, there is a dependency now, this is bad -- but making it
worse is not a good idea.
Then maybe the test-engine needs to split in two parts: One that
knows about DrScheme (and which can have translations), and one that
doesn't. It seems Kathy has already catered to that scenario the
way the modules in collects/test-engine are organized.
* Yes, such splits are good -- but I basically get zero help from
package authors. (I've stopped trying to do that, so I just email
when I see something obvious.)
* The files that are in the `dr' distribution are files that drscheme
depends on, not the other way (otherwise they'd move to the `plt'
distribution).
(You can see this by the fact that
"test-engine" appears in dr-extras instead of plt-extras)
A comment might help idle readers like me figure out that you
consider this undesirable.
I tried to explain it several times, I don't think that anyone
remembers. (This also applies to having `mr' and `dr' distros when
they're not really being built.)
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