Huh, I must have missed this the first time around. I've run into this sort of thing multiple times before and it usually brings me to this question:
What if the configuration file was the main module of your app, instead of something imported by your app? Think about it. The "my-project/config/local" and "my-project/config/production" modules are essentially saying "to run the app locally, set the project config to these values". What module could possibly have a use for that information other than the main "app startup" module? It seems like all other code should only depend on modules that define the *schema *of configuration, rather than any modules that set that configuration to specific values. It seems odd for the schema definition module (my-project/config) to depend on modules that actually use that schema to set config values (my-project/config/local). The reverse sounds more sensible. If you make a module written in `#lang my-project/config` expand to a `main` submodule that starts up your app you get some other neat Rackety things to show off to your colleagues: not only will they get an IDE with syntax highlighting and good error messages "for free", pressing the Run button with a config file open will launch the app automatically! This might not work if launching your app is especially complicated, but I'm curious if you've explored this direction and what your thoughts are. On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 1:28:06 PM UTC-8, Philip McGrath wrote: > > For the benefit of posterity, while I haven't actually solved the > cycle-in-loading error, I was able to get the results that I wanted in this > case by: > > 1. Implementing the language as a `module` (not `module*` or > `module+`) submodule of "my-project/config.rkt", including a > (module reader syntax/module-reader > #:language '(submod my-project/config lang)) > 2. In the body of the outer `my-project/config` module, instead of > requiring the values from "my-project/config/local.rkt" etc. as usual, > getting them lazily/dynamically, which I am doing with a little wrapper on > top of `define-runtime-module-path-index`, though `racket/lazy-require` > would probably also work well. > > Evaluating the configuration files lazily was particularly good for me > because it lets me write, say, "production.rkt" assuming that various > things from the production server exist and just raising an error if not, > rather than having to make everything in every configuration file run on > every machine. > > -Philip > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
