On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> That's a bunch of issues, and three proposals: (1) set up PLTUSERDIR >> to control placement of Planet and Scribble generated files, (2) pick >> a conventional place in the PLT tree for users to store it who can and >> wish to do so, and (3) longer term, think about a way to fit >> development link code into this story. So -- what do the rest of you >> developer folks think? > > I did #1 and #2 on a branch > (http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/branches/cce/plt+addon-dir). I updated > the C implementation of (find-system-path 'addon-dir) to first check > the PLTADDONDIR environment variable; Planet and Scribble both use the > addon-dir, so it seems to be the right point of control. I also > updated the Scribble documentation for find-system-path, and added an > svn:ignore property for $PLTHOME/add-on as a canonical place for > in-tree add-on directories. > > I have built the PLT tree with PLTADDONDIR set (which put scribble > files in the custom add-on directory), run `planet show' (which > constructed and queried a planet cache in the custom add-on > directory), and run $PLTHOME/collects/tests/run-automated-tests.ss > (which succeeded). All of this was on Mac OS X. > > Does anyone object if I move this to the trunk? Is there anything I > need to do first (e.g. testing on other platforms)? I have attached > the relevant patch for the trunk if anyone wants to try this change > without grabbing the whole branch.
An update -- Matthew has agreed to take over this code and to (eventually) add a corresponding command line option to control the "addon-dir". I have repeated the test steps above with the latest changes from the trunk, and merged my changes onto the trunk. --Carl _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev