My guess is that this isn't going to work easily for v5.3.6. For the next release, of course, we're directly supporting the idea of a minimal installation. But we had to shuffle things a little to arrive at a minimal set of libraries, and you wouldn't want to repeat that work.
At Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:33:03 -0400, Josh Tilles wrote: > Context for my question: I'm working on the Homebrew formula for > Racket<https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/22420>, > and I'd like to offer a version that has as few dependencies as possible. > From what I've seen of the current state of the repository, it seems like > the PLTeam has already adopted the ideas that Matthew Flatt explored in > min-racket <https://github.com/mflatt/min-racket>. I've tried to reproduce > a similar situation with the 5.3.6 release. > > From all of the packages that are usually installed by default in > 5.3.6<https://github.com/plt/racket/tree/ded0c4a8474baa61ac84fb27dfb5353965fb75 > 6b/collects>, > I selected the following: > > - compiler > - data > - db > - dynext > - ffi > - file > - json > - launcher > - net > - openssl > - pkg > - planet > - racket > - raco > - reader > - s-exp > - setup > - syntax > - unstable > - version > - xml > > So, is this reasonable? Or is it a misguided idea, fated to plunge users of > Homebrew into a morass of mysterious errors? > > Thank you for any guidance, > --Josh > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
