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Can anyone tell me why Racket requires 900Mb of disk space? It's just a Lisp when all's said and done.

by cutler 5y ago

linspace 5y ago
It comes with lot of libraries and a compiler, not sure if it's the reason
watersb 5y ago
I am not at my main computer at the moment so I can't confirm yet, but IIRC Racket is available as a much smaller language core set of tools sufficient to run CLI scripts. I consider Racket to be a "batteries included", curated distribution of the Racket lang CLI tools, plus a lot of libraries, including libraries for GUI development. Lots of documentation and the IDE. The TeXLive distribution might be somewhat analogous; billions of bytes of fonts and GUI apps, a package manager... https://www.tug.org/texlive/ https://www.tug.org/texlive/
samth 5y ago
The full installation includes an IDE, a documentation system, a web server, a bunch of graphical games, a slide presentation program, significant educational software, and more, plus thousands of pages of docs. If you want a smaller program to install, the Minimal Racket distribution will use much less space, and is still a full-featured Lisp.
- gus_massa 5y ago
  Adding more details: To download the minimal version: https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/ https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/ The installer is 1/5 of the full version. I'm too lazy to install both side by side to see the amount of disk after installation. Also, once the minimal version is installed, it's possible to add some of the packages to get a custom intermediate version, or even just add all the packages and get the full version.
jambutters 5y ago
it doesn't, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/racket/ https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/racket/ according to arch its ~500MB. The installer is ~200 but unpacked is all the documentation and etc. The switch to Chez Scheme backend has upped the size because it no longer outputs bytecode but machinecode directly

Can anyone tell me why Racket requires 900Mb of disk space? It's just a Lisp when all's said and done.

by cutler 5y ago

Can anyone tell me why Racket requires 900Mb of disk space? It's just a Lisp when all's said and done.

linspace 5y ago

It comes with lot of libraries and a compiler, not sure if it's the reason

watersb 5y ago

I am not at my main computer at the moment so I can't confirm yet, but IIRC Racket is available as a much smaller language core set of tools sufficient to run CLI scripts. I consider Racket to be a "batteries included", curated distribution of the Racket lang CLI tools, plus a lot of libraries, including libraries for GUI development. Lots of documentation and the IDE. The TeXLive distribution might be somewhat analogous; billions of bytes of fonts and GUI apps, a package manager... https://www.tug.org/texlive/ https://www.tug.org/texlive/

samth 5y ago

The full installation includes an IDE, a documentation system, a web server, a bunch of graphical games, a slide presentation program, significant educational software, and more, plus thousands of pages of docs. If you want a smaller program to install, the Minimal Racket distribution will use much less space, and is still a full-featured Lisp.

gus_massa 5y ago
Adding more details: To download the minimal version: https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/ https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/ The installer is 1/5 of the full version. I'm too lazy to install both side by side to see the amount of disk after installation. Also, once the minimal version is installed, it's possible to add some of the packages to get a custom intermediate version, or even just add all the packages and get the full version.

jambutters 5y ago

it doesn't, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/racket/ https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/racket/ according to arch its ~500MB. The installer is ~200 but unpacked is all the documentation and etc. The switch to Chez Scheme backend has upped the size because it no longer outputs bytecode but machinecode directly