At Wed, 5 Nov 2014 16:23:37 -0500, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > > On 2014-11-05 11:08:56 -0500, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > > Right, I was suggesting a possible change to `raco exe` that may solve > > the problem. I don't know whether it's possible / a good idea, though. > > We discussed this a bit in the lab today. It sounds like `raco exe` is > conservative by default here and has to bring in all the compile-time > dependencies too. > > The reason is that things like `eval` (or other reflection mechanisms) > may need the compile-time dependencies.
Since `raco exe` already doesn't track dependencies introduced via runtime paths and `dynamic-require`, I think eliding compile-time dependencies would be fair game. > In practice though, it seems like these can be removed in many > situations without causing problems. Maybe we would benefit from a flag > that can enable a less conservative mode? That should be the default, IMO. Vincent ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
