Re: [racket-dev] FreeBSD installation

2021-05-26 Thread Philip McGrath
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 1:05 PM Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Sat, 22 May 2021 08:09:53 -0700 (PDT), "je...@lisp.sh" wrote: > To keep the build process from getting too big while still improving > cross-build support, we might add more Minimal Racket builds without > expanding the set of full distrib

Re: [racket-dev] FreeBSD installation

2021-05-26 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Wed, 26 May 2021 14:09:57 +0200, "Jesse Alama" wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > > At Sat, 22 May 2021 08:09:53 -0700 (PDT), "je...@lisp.sh" wrote: > > > Is there any interest in having a FreeBSD installation alongside the > > > macOS, Windows, and Linux? > >

Re: [racket-dev] FreeBSD installation

2021-05-26 Thread Jesse Alama
On Sun, May 23, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Sat, 22 May 2021 08:09:53 -0700 (PDT), "je...@lisp.sh" wrote: > > Is there any interest in having a FreeBSD installation alongside the > > macOS, Windows, and Linux? > > I'm not sure how ready the John (the release manager) will be to ad

Re: [racket-dev] FreeBSD installation

2021-05-23 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
Well, I’m not over the moon about another release platform; is there significant demand? I know, I know, the meaning of the word “significant” is completely unspecified. I would certainly agree with Matthew that the Minimal installations might be a less painful addition. It may be unclear why a

Re: [racket-dev] FreeBSD installation

2021-05-23 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sat, 22 May 2021 08:09:53 -0700 (PDT), "je...@lisp.sh" wrote: > Is there any interest in having a FreeBSD installation alongside the > macOS, Windows, and Linux? I'm not sure how ready the John (the release manager) will be to add a new platform, but I'm willing to give it a try at the Utah sna

[racket-dev] FreeBSD installation

2021-05-22 Thread je...@lisp.sh
Is there any interest in having a FreeBSD installation alongside the macOS, Windows, and Linux? Background: I'd like to use raco cross to cross-compile native binaries, working on x86_64 Linux and targeting x86_64 FreeBSD (ta6fb). While naively trying out raco cross, I noticed that it (tries t