Re: [racket-dev] experience using the `pkg` branch

2013-06-13 Thread Robby Findler
I know it runs it. I don't know why Jay writes "The package system says something is installed when the files are in place and the link is made. >From some perspective, that's its job.". I can't tell if there's some technical piece I'm missing or not (on the surface, these words sound almost lazy b

Re: [racket-dev] experience using the `pkg` branch

2013-06-13 Thread Carl Eastlund
It does run 'raco setup', it just doesn't have much to do in response to a failure, at least right now. Carl Eastlund On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Also, Jay: can you explain more why 'raco setup' isn't something that we > should think about as running "inside" the pk

Re: [racket-dev] experience using the `pkg` branch

2013-06-13 Thread Robby Findler
Also, Jay: can you explain more why 'raco setup' isn't something that we should think about as running "inside" the pkg manager? (I'm not saying that automatically rolling back packages is the right thing to do or anything like that, but I would like to understand the model you have better.) Robby

Re: [racket-dev] experience using the `pkg` branch

2013-06-13 Thread Robby Findler
WRT to the stacktrace below, I guess that if the info.rkt file had been in a suggestively named directory, e.g., /var/tmp/pkg13711534991371153499937/future-visualizer/info.rkt (assuming that the package's name was future-visualizer) that might have been a useful clue. Robby On Thu, Jun 13, 20

Re: [racket-dev] experience using the `pkg` branch

2013-06-13 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > As part of my experiment in creating a different split of the > repository into packages, I spent some time working with the new setup > for building Racket, and cut myself on many of it's rough edges. Some > of these are about the pac

Re: [racket-dev] updated proposal for moving to packages

2013-06-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Did you try to organize the repository along the distribution specs with all documentation brought in at the very top? I can imagine that anyone who downloads textual Racket wants to run it on a machine that is not where he develops the code. Indeed, the dev machine will have a full-fledged Ra

[racket-dev] experience using the `pkg` branch

2013-06-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
As part of my experiment in creating a different split of the repository into packages, I spent some time working with the new setup for building Racket, and cut myself on many of it's rough edges. Some of these are about the package system in general, and some are about the new repository and bui

Re: [racket-dev] updated proposal for moving to packages

2013-06-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > * The details of the repository organization (including where to split >repositories) should be different. > >As described in next section of this message, the experimental >repository represents a revised proposal, but there's