Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-27 Thread Robby Findler
Bullet point 2 seems like it may overlap (in a practical, what do I use today sort of a way) with Matthew's modulelet construct. Both group modules together, both provide independently loadable things. Do we really want/need both of these? Robby On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jay McCarthy

Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-27 Thread Robby Findler
They have more similarities than your message suggests I believe. And it is probably worth exploring that. As far as I can see a facet/modulet has less stuff than a package and possibly a different story vis a vis files in the filesystem. Robby On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, Jay McCarthy

Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-27 Thread Eli Barzilay
10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: They have more similarities than your message suggests I believe. And it is probably worth exploring that. As far as I can see a facet/modulet has less stuff than a package and possibly a different story vis a vis files in the filesystem. They're really

Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-27 Thread Carl Eastlund
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: They have more similarities than your message suggests I believe. And it is probably worth exploring that.  As far as I can see a facet/modulet has less stuff than a package and

Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-27 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: They have more similarities than your message suggests I believe. And it is probably worth exploring that.  As far

Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-27 Thread Carl Eastlund
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: They have more similarities than your

[racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-26 Thread Jay McCarthy
Eli and I had a very useful conversation last night and we realized that a lot of the ideal package system we are imagining is within our reach very quickly. Today I made a demonstration of our ideas: https://github.com/jeapostrophe/exp/tree/master/pkgs There's a README there. Once you read it,

Re: [racket-dev] A basic package system

2011-07-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It's probably just me, but this readme is a bit too dense. [I know the first bit. That's why I pushed the two-step. I know a bit more from Eli. But that's an accident.] On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: Eli and I had a very useful conversation last night and we realized that