I recently experimented with Alpine packages for Racket 7.x, minimal and full, but ran out of steam when I realised I didn't know whether "minimal" and "full" even make sense in context. Is there a need for an "ultra minimal"?
Anyway, APKBUILD etc (partially cribbed from Jakub Jirutka's Racket 6.12 APKBUILD) available here: https://github.com/tonyg/racket-alpine There's also a couple of Dockerfiles for dockerized alpine-based Racket 7. I haven't concentrated on the DrRacket/graphical portions at all. Tony On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 3:30:27 AM UTC, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Alpine Linux is now popular for "cloud containers", and is also the > basis for mainline Linux for smartphones and tablets. > > An official Alpine package with the latest DrRacket would be a big win > to help people start playing with DrRacket on some handhelds, without > the agony of building it themselves on their handheld (or trying to > cross-compile it on their own desktops). > > Once we have DrRacket packages, I'd like to have people use Racket to > build out apps and user interface for these open source handhelds, > eventually replacing most of the C and C++ code. > > So... Does anyone want to join Alpine package maintainer guild, to > maintain Alpine package(s) for the latest Racket releases? > > For 6.12, the necessary patches are small, the same as for the > stripped-down Racket-Minimal package (you don't need or want > "paxmark.patch"): > > > https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/testing/racket?id=de35722a3295116d8e64305c01a1168932b56f26 > > > I've successfully built and run DrRacket on Alpine in the normal Racket > way on the devices, using only the above MUSL, LibreSSL, and Makefile > bash-ism patches. It was enough of a headache that people will need > pre-compiled Alpine packages (they'll have enough headache getting a > minimal Linux install on a handheld, at this early point). I want to > shift that compute to Alpine's presumably more powerful build servers, > and shift any remaining headache to a heroic Racketeer > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_linux > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS > https://www.neilvandyke.org/postmarketos/ > > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
