Subject: Re: bug#46865: [PATCH] gnu: racket: update to 8.0.

From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 08:49:55 -0500

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi Philip,
>
> Philip McGrath <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/scheme.scm (racket, racket-minimal): Update to 8.0.
>
> I applied it and tweak the commit log to mention the fields that were
> changed.  The new synopsis and description LGTM!
>
> Did you try unbundling Chez?  It would be great if we could do that.
> (In Guix we unbundle software as much as possible, notably for security
> reasons.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.

My understanding is that Racket is shipping a modified Chez, which could
make that difficult (but the goal is for the Chez it ships to be
less-modified-over-time).