Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-30 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I think that a minor variation on Neil's strategy should not be too > difficult to do (but I'll certainly agree that it is not an ideal > situation). What you'd do is first just download (via the "Bam" method > below :) the planet packages yo

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-30 Thread Daniel Farina
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > It's good to see interest in Racket from cloud people.  Feel free to ask > lots of questions on the Racket "users" and "dev" email lists as you work > through your solution. Well, this a side-interest for personally, but *anyone* can make a

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-30 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Another variation, if you're thinking about cloud infrastructure today: you could pretty easily make your own faux PLaneT server that either is for a single app or takes the identity/profile of the app as part of the URL the app uses to access the PLaneT server. The faux server can be a tiny H

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-29 Thread Robby Findler
I think that a minor variation on Neil's strategy should not be too difficult to do (but I'll certainly agree that it is not an ideal situation). What you'd do is first just download (via the "Bam" method below :) the planet packages you want. Then, if you look inside this directory: (build-pat

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-29 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Daniel Farina wrote at 12/29/2011 07:59 PM: The goal is that a program written, say, three years ago should be able to run the same way it did when it was written, so it's really useful to freeze all the dependencies into the file system somehow and preserve it. Someone else can comment on

[racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Farina
Hello list, I've been playing with Racket. I'm impressed, especially with the documentation (both its content and its presentation), the contract system, and its performance. I have been investigating writing a build pack for Heroku to attempt deploying Racket projects with ease. A blocker, tho