On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamo...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > 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.
FWIW, define-runtime-path is a mechanism designed to allow such dependencies to be declared so they can be tracked. Robby ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
