Since no one else has answered, I'll jump in as a Racketeer using Homebrew.
I currently use the "cask" of Racket, but I did formerly use the "minimal-racket" package. I had no need for the minimalism, but one thing I liked about it is that (IIRC) it set the console-bin for Racket launchers to something consistent across releases (maybe /usr/local ?). With the cask version, Homebrew symlinks racket, raco, etc into /usr/local, but command-line tools added by packages go into /Applications/Racket v6.9/bin, which means I still have to remember to edit my PATH when I install a new version of Racket. (Or perhaps there's some environment variable I don't know about to set such things?) In an ideal world, I'd really like Homebrew to manage configuring my PATH, migrating installed packages, etc. automatically. (Perhaps something closer to the "Unix-style" option from the Linux/Unix installer script.) Of course, in practice I'm only reminded of this every few months when upgrade time comes, vaguely think I should figure out a better solution, and then forget about it … -Philip On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Vincent St-Amour < [email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I've been noticing a number of people reporting issues related to the > `minimal-racket` Homebrew formula, for Mac OS. > > In particular, package installation seems at least partially broken. > The larger issue, though, is that, as far as I can tell, this formula > is not actively maintained. > > Fortunately for Racketeers who like to use Homebrew, there also exists a > "cask" (pre-built package) for Racket, built using the installers > produced by the Racket team. To the best of my knowledge, this version > works fine. > > So my question to Racket-via-Homebrew users is: is the cask sufficient > for your purposes? If so, I'll ask the Homebrew maintainers to remove > the broken `minimal-racket` formula. If not, and you would be interested > in taking over its maintenance, I can add you keep you in the loop > regarding Racket releases. > > Please let me know what you think. > > Vincent > > -- > 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/m2shk0ijgk.wl-stamourv%40eecs.northwestern.edu. > 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/CAH3z3gZuSeF-T2nLm%3DTRYHkvYm-W2Tc5-n0rJqZ2aBnXLhP8Gw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
