Hi James Did you have any luck with using homebrew to package and distribute your Racket program?
I thought Bottles might be the way to go but I’m not sure: https://docs.brew.sh/Bottles I have two ideas a) add installing racket from homebrew to a bash script that launches your prog b) using the create executable function in DrRacket (or raco) to build a stand-alone version that can be modified to distribute via homebrew Kind regards Stephen PS I think this is a great idea that I’m sure others will use. On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 14:05, James Geddes <james.ged...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > For reasons (explained below, possibly foolish reasons) I am trying to do > the following: > > 1. Have `raco pkg install` install a package X to a specific directory, > including, in the same directory, all of the dependencies of X, but > excluding those dependencies that are already present in the current > installation's collections; and > > 2. Have `raco exe myprok.rkt` look in that custom directory for `(require > X)`? > > I tried the `--scope-dir` option to `raco pkg install` but that installed > what looks like the entire racket standard library (see below). > > Many thanks, > > James > > > > PS. What I'm /really/ trying to do is distribute a little command-line > programme that I wrote in Racket to my colleagues using the homebrew > package manager. My programme depends on the gregor library. > > Most of my colleagues don't have Racket. Homebrew likes to compile from > source, so I will need to have homebrew download the dependencies I need > for compilation. But now, homebrew really doesn't like you to write outside > a very small set of directories during the installation process, and those > don't appear to include the standard Racket collections directories. > > (I could well have misunderstood this. I don't understand at all how > homebrew interacts with language-specific package managers like raco, pip, > cabal, and so on. My sense is that the non-raco ones install dependencies > in project-specific directories and I suspect homebrew has specific support > for Python libraries.) > > Anyway, my program depends on the gregor library, so I tried this: > > $ raco pkg install --scope-dir tmp gregor-lib > > $ ls tmp > > 2d-lib pict-doc > at-exp-lib pict-lib > base pict-snip-lib > cext-lib pkgs.rktd > class-iop-lib plai-lib > cldr-bcp47 planet-doc > : > [ ~100 rows omitted] > : > net-doc web-server-doc > net-lib web-server-lib > option-contract-lib wxme-lib > parser-tools-doc xrepl > parser-tools-lib xrepl-doc > pconvert-lib xrepl-lib > pict zo-lib > > > > > > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2C6D9102-2F63-4A0E-A033-C7FECC5F9CF8%40gmail.com > . > -- ---- -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAGHj7-%2BqQLRNVf3_EntEsyS8uYofgHo3DMz_%2B0WdFMuN7uk0cw%40mail.gmail.com.
