I think it would also help if the doc pages cited by the OP were to list all 
tools coming with the main distribution and explain how to disable them a bit 
more. That's less work than coding. -- Matthias






On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> [moved to dev@] Would it be something to shoot for with the package-based 
> release: only getting a minimal set of tools/plugins (like Stephen's set) 
> when the drracket package is the only one installed (starting from a minimal 
> racket)?
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle 
> <stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I delete anything that I recognise & don't use, (and leave the stuff I don't 
> understand alone).
> 
> I remove the teaching languages, slideshow, swindle, lazy. 
>  
> If you find racket doesn't launch you can always manually edit the 
> preferences file.
> 
> My suggested working minimum is 
> Check Syntax
> Graphical Debugger
> Macro Stepper
> 
> I like to include RackUnit
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Stephen
> <image.png>
> 
> --
> Stephen De Gabrielle
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jon Kleiser <jon.klei...@usit.uio.no> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On one of my older Macs, DrRacket uses quite some time to launch, and I 
> wondered if disabling some of the 17 Tools in the Preferences could help. 
> Before disabling any of these, however, I'd like some info about what they 
> really do. Looking here didn't make me any wiser:
> <http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/prefs-explanation.html#%28part._.Tools%29>
> ... except that those "tools" are also called "plugins".
> 
> I cannot see that this page <http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/> has the info 
> that I'm looking for either.
> 
> /Jon
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