On 8-Oct-08, at 4:51 PM, Adrien Piérard wrote:
I've been wondering... Would it be possible to separate the "extra" part from the main one? I mean the examples... I believe that they are quite static compared to the rest of the code, and thus, take some extra space in the tarballs (not that space is a problem, but in my opinion, they'd better be distinct from the compiler itself).
Perhaps gambit-doc or gambit-examples or gambit-tools (which would contain gambit.el and some extra features, such as SRFI-1, and other useful functions (perhaps with some gambit-specific code)
That doesn't save much space (about 0.5 MB uncompressed). Moreover I prefer to have a self contained distributions where users can easily try out some real examples with "make examples" rather than downloading separately.
Marc
P.S. did you know that the benchmarks misc/bench.tgz contains a copy of the King James Bible? Perhaps I could remove the benchmarks... on the other hand it is an inconspicuous way to spread the good word.