Re: [racket-users] Re: Distributing executables with homebrew

2019-06-10 Thread James Platt
Another consideration with Homebrew is how far back you want to go with OS support. They recently ended support for macOS 10.11 "El Capitan". In fact, it's the very first thing which has become an issue for me still running El Capitan. I don't know exactly how far back you can support with R

Re: [racket-users] Re: Distributing executables with homebrew

2019-06-10 Thread James Geddes
Many thanks Joel, I do agree that `raco distribute` seems the way to go. Indeed, the setup described in the blog post you shared is just what I’m currently doings (so it’s nice to know I’m not doing something too crazy!). What gave me pause, however, was that homebrew seems to discourage binary

[racket-users] Re: Distributing executables with homebrew

2019-06-09 Thread 'Joel Dueck' via Racket Users
I’m no expert, but since no one else has chimed in: if you’re distributing a program (vs a library) and you want it to work regardless of whether Racket is installed, what you probably want is to compile your program using raco distribute (https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe-dist.html). Then