Second the desire for this not to be the case. Personally, my solution is just to rename the folder after installing it. I am currently working with binaries from /Applications/Racket_v6.11/bin/...
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Stephen Smith <stephen1965sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Authoring a new Racket book (targeting all platforms and non-programmers) > and having to tell users to quote paths with spaces to be able to use the > command-line tools seems distracting and an unnecessary complexity to impose > on them. > > Reference this post: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/2-ASoQ03x9Q/AXQyV4MTx0EJ by > Matthew Johnson. > > From a *nix perspective, it just seems like 'bad practice' to have folder > names with spaces? Though, devil's advocate, I get that underscores or > combined words can be unsightly, especially on a Mac where there are > hard-core design people to contend with (I can hear them now, "It doesn't > look nice in Finder" :-) but for Mac apps that have command-line tools it > seems more common to not have spaces in the folder name leading to a bin > folder. > > Is there a particular reason why Racket uses a space in its folder name? > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
