Ooh, this is very nice. I’ve consulted the list of categories a few times, and I’ve never really found anything obvious to use for any of my packages aside from the default 'library. Are there plans to move any of the packages in the main distribution into other, more specific names with this change? That might be a good way to create some obvious buckets for people to put their packages in.
> On Dec 19, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you take a look at > > http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/ > > You'll see that basically all manuals for packages are under the > "Miscellaneous Libraries" category. A small part of this is because > the authors don't know how to use the other categories, described > here: > > http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/raco/setup-info.html?q=getting-started#%28idx._%28gentag._4._%28lib._scribblings%2Fraco%2Fraco..scrbl%29%29%29 > > However, I think the majority of the reason is that the existing > categories are not appropriate for packages like compiler-goodies, > glob, GLU tessellation, etc. > > I've just pushed a commit that allows arbitrary strings to be used as > the categories. These categories are then sorted and put before the > "Miscellaneous" category on the documentation page. Over time, I > expect that we will discover common categories worth coordinating on > (for instance, do we have "Graphics" and "3D Graphics" as separate > ideas?) Here's an example: > > (define scribblings '(("openal.scrbl" () ("Audio")))) > > I briefly considered enabling a manual to be in many categories and > writing a tag-style interface, but instead went with this smaller > first cut approach. > > Please make use of this feature. > > Jay > > -- > Jay McCarthy > Associate Professor > PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAJYbDanmBM4CUDXOO-fsrmfw_pXeACPOJHH4Ww2bWuvBBT90Sg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/4D69A7CC-9FA9-4181-A0A8-CE08AE091947%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
