Re: [racket-dev] Installing subsets of Racket

2013-09-24 Thread Laurent
Thanks for the info. Binaries may still be good when one wants to install a package only for a single purpose. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Although packages are not currently distributed in binary form, you can install built packages (as

Re: [racket-dev] Installing subsets of Racket

2013-09-23 Thread Matthew Flatt
Although packages are not currently distributed in binary form, you can install built packages (as available from a snapshot site) in binary mode by supplying the `--binary' flag to `raco pkg install'. For example, if you start with a Minimal Racket build from

Re: [racket-dev] Installing subsets of Racket

2013-09-16 Thread Jay McCarthy
Hi Laurent, I think that the solution to this are binary builds versions of a package that only have the bytecode and documentation. We're a bit behind on binary builds, because when they were discussed for the main repository [1] they were rejected. I hope to be able to still provide them

Re: [racket-dev] Installing subsets of Racket

2013-09-16 Thread Laurent
great, thanks, that was quick! On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.eduwrote: In the meantime, the images pkg is now broken up and images-lib depends only on draw-lib (and some unstable stuff), no longer on the full gui library or the docs. Robby On

Re: [racket-dev] Installing subsets of Racket

2013-09-16 Thread Robby Findler
In the meantime, the images pkg is now broken up and images-lib depends only on draw-lib (and some unstable stuff), no longer on the full gui library or the docs. Robby On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Laurent laurent.ors...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds good! I think as long as it's possible to

Re: [racket-dev] Installing subsets of Racket

2013-09-16 Thread Laurent
Sounds good! I think as long as it's possible to somehow choose between byte-code and source-code packages/distributions, there should not be too much to worry about. My server would be very happy with byte-code packages, and my desktop with a full source-code Racket. Laurent On Mon, Sep 16,