Description
When working on the branch for multiple back ends, including remote, we added code to possibly copy Racket Mode's back end source code (the *.rkt files) to the remote host if outdated, where "outdated" is determined using a digest of the source file contents.
However:
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racket-mode-start-fasterhas not (yet) been updated to do anything for remote back ends. -
Even for local back ends, we could probably use a digest to do a
raco makeautomatically as/when needed. In other words there needn't be anyracket-mode-start-fastercommand for the user to run manually. -
Furthermore -- and this is probably a separate issue and to-do -- aybe an
info.rktshould define a package. This wouldn't be published on the Racket package catalog; the delivery mechanism for Racket Mode would still be an Emacs package that happens to contain Racket source (which people get from MELPA or use viastraight.elor whatever). But it could mean that we can doraco pkg install --link. Let it do theraco make. Furthermore this could clarify the dependencies situation for users.