On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
Yes, it could. That's the second option I suggested below. I was more
conservative, tho, and suggested that it only be turned on with a
flag. But perhaps it should be disabled with a flag instead. I think
we probably want it off by default for the mzscheme binary, tho, since
mzscheme will inprinciple be running in all kinds of places that
shouldn't do things like write to the fileysystem.
That's why I said 'use source'.
I like this best. (And yes, I am an svn user and by golly I can get
around this, but I wouldn't be surprised if this could happen to
'regular' people.)
-- Matthias
Robby
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Matthias
Felleisen<matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
Perhaps I am naive, but could mzscheme just automatically compile
files when
it finds that compiled/ is out of date? or use the source file
instead?
On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
I see a few possibilities. I think that this is a problem
specific to
people who work regularly with SVN, so we can expect such people to
have extra sophistication:
- (IMO, the second best option and one that is available now):
instead of saying "mzscheme file.ss", say "mzc file.ss && mzscheme
file.ss".
- (IMO the best option): mzscheme should get a commandline option
that amounts to doing the above for you automatically. So intead of
"mzscheme file.ss" yo'd say "mzscheme --compile-zo file.ss" or
something.
- disable automatic compilation in drscheme.
- (the saddest option): by default, have automatic compilation in
drscheme turned off by default
Robby
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Matthias
Felleisen<matth...@ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:
Now that drscheme compiles things behind my back, I am
encountering a new
problem al the time.
1. I have a fair number of scripts. Usually I run them with
mzscheme ...
or
mred ... or it may even have the right Unix incantations in the
file.
2. I also tend to use auxiliary files and my own small private
collects
of
auxiliaries.
3. On some occasion (I thought it was rare but it happens often
enough
since
the switch for me to notice) I open these scripts in drs and run
them.
Now
the aux files are compiled.
4. I regularly update my plt installation from source (say 3-4
times per
week; usually every day).
5. Oops, I can no longer run the scripts because the compiled
files are
version n-1.
I'll just stick to describing the problem here, just in case
there's an
obvious solution. -- Matthias
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