From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Dimakakos Dimos <me@bendersteed.tech>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Racket packages: formerly Move DrRacket to a separate output?
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:35:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a70afall.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kvmtkr9.fsf@bendersteed.tech>
Dimakakos Dimos writes:
> Pierre Neidhardt writes:
>
>> I've (finally) pushed racket-minimal.
>> Hooray!
>>
>> Now to the Racket importer... Anyone?
>> Dimakakos? :)
>
> Nice! It will be very useful. I've put some research into a build system
> for racket, and sadly it isn't trivial to match the racket package
> system to guix.
>
> There is a lot of state handling in racket specific files, since every
> package is indexed by linking the specific folder of a package. Right
> now I'm creating these files ad-hoc but it doens't seem the best
> approach, since racket is really slow searching for the dependencies in
> many folders. At the same time, racket tries sometims to rebuild
> packages that are passed as inputs. There are also circular dependencies
> and other stuff that need to be ironed out.
>
> I'm also talking with the creator of racket2nix, a similar project for
> nix and he had the same problems, so we discussed about working for a
> solution for both package managers.
>
> So in conclusion, I don't have a specific roadmap, but I'm still working
> on it.
Would you mind sharing what you have so far? Even just a complete
braindump of notes or WIP code could be helpful to move this along!
I've started reading some for the docs over at:
https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/index.html
I'm getting an idea of some things but it would be useful to hear what
you and Claes have explored so far!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 22:17 Racket: Move DrRacket to a separate output? Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 8:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-14 17:44 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-04 15:46 ` Racket packages: formerly " Pjotr Prins
2019-10-04 19:23 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-04 20:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-10-04 22:44 ` Dimakakos Dimos
2019-10-05 7:50 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-10-05 12:34 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-10-05 18:51 ` Dimakakos Dimos
2019-10-05 12:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-06 12:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-18 16:07 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-19 19:55 ` Dimakakos Dimos
2020-02-19 22:55 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-02-20 12:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2020-02-20 13:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-20 21:59 ` Pjotr Prins
2020-07-08 12:35 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber [this message]
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