Re: Installing scheme only programs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> () Diogo F. S. Ramos <address@hidden>
> () Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:50:29 -0300 (BRT)
>
>    I recently learn a technique where, during 'make', one 'cat' all the
>    sources files together, forming a big, single executable script. Doing
>    so, there is no need to install the .scm files, because they are all
>    inside the same executable file.
>
> This is the technique used in RPX:
>
>   http://www.gnuvola.org/software/rpx/
>
> It generalizes "compilation" from simple concatentation to include other
> program-specific transforms.  End result is two files to (un)install:
>
>  - $(bindir)/rpx
>  - $(infodir)/rpx.info

But then doesn’t it prevent code reuse?

I don’t know to what extent this applies to RPX, but for instance, you
can’t just ‘(use-modules (rpx the-feature-you-want-to-use))’; you end up
doing ‘(use-modules (rpx))’ and potentially pulling more code than you
really want.

Thanks,
Ludo’.