<samth>
tldr: it's likely to be the default in the next release
<ermo>
what's the plan in terms of the distro packaging story for racket cs? Currently you appear to have to jump through some hoops?
<bremner>
who is "you" in that question?
<ermo>
samth: yeah, thanks, I was wondering what had happened since then.
<ermo>
bremner: well, "me" as I (I do my best to) package racket for a couple of distros
<bremner>
ok.
<ermo>
one 'I' too many
<samth>
ermo: not much has happened since then, which is kinda the idea
<ermo>
bremner: you package it for debian, yeah?
<bremner>
correct
<samth>
ermo: and what hoops do you mean?
<ermo>
samth: Hang on, just checking that my memory of "hoops" isn't completely outdated =)
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<ermo>
samth: must've been faulty memory/crossed wires on my part it seems, as the steps for building CS for 7.8 and 7.9 seem completely straightforward.
<ermo>
apologies.
<samth>
great!
<ermo>
as in: "the build system automagically pulls in and bootstraps a bc version of racket to be able to build the chez scheme interpreter"
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<samth>
ermo: now it doesn't do that; it builds a c-written interpreter for chez boot files
<ermo>
Huh. Neat.
<ermo>
sounds like the racket-on-cs story is really coming together =)
<ermo>
how many kloc is that c-written interpreter?
<samth>
ermo: about 1k lines for the interpreter, about 2k for the backend that generates code for it
<ermo>
superficially (since this is mostly above my pay-grade), I'm curious about the reasoning behind using ",this ,that ,something-else" as opposed to the typical "this, that, something-else" -- is it for parsing, for readability or for something else I haven't been able to imagine?
<ermo>
/s/pb.ss
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<samth>
ermo: I think you're confused about what's going on there -- the , is an unquote, part of a quasiquote