[racket-dev] Package system quickstart section?
Hi all, Would anyone be opposed to adding a Quickstart section to the Package System documentation page? The current first section[1] is useful, but it's a pretty dense read for someone who just wants to know how to install a package. I'm imagining that the Quickstart would describe where to find packages (pkg.racket-lang.org, github, etc.) and the commands you need to type to install a package from typical sources. Maybe screenshots showing how to use the package GUI. [1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet2/Package_Concepts.html Cheers, Asumu _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
Re: [racket-dev] Package system quickstart section?
There currently is a quickstart section designed for developers: http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet2/Developing_Packages.html So, I'm fine with you working on a quickstart from a user perspective, although I worry about being too vague on some of the details in the Concepts section or duplicating the content. At a high-level, go for it, but I'd like to see what you make. Jay On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Asumu Takikawa as...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Hi all, Would anyone be opposed to adding a Quickstart section to the Package System documentation page? The current first section[1] is useful, but it's a pretty dense read for someone who just wants to know how to install a package. I'm imagining that the Quickstart would describe where to find packages (pkg.racket-lang.org, github, etc.) and the commands you need to type to install a package from typical sources. Maybe screenshots showing how to use the package GUI. [1]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet2/Package_Concepts.html Cheers, Asumu _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev -- Jay McCarthy j...@cs.byu.edu Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay The glory of God is Intelligence - DC 93 _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
[racket-dev] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September
RacketCon 2013 -- We are pleased to announce that (third RacketCon) will take place on September 29, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston. This year, we plan to bring in several speakers from industry, as well as host talks from Racket developers and users. Lunch will be provided. On the Saturday (28th) before RacketCon, we plan to hold a hackathon to work on various Racket projects. Registration will open during the summer, and we will post a detailed schedule of events around the same time. The conference website is at http://con.racket-lang.org/ Asumu Takikawa and PLT _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
Re: [racket-dev] [racket] Explicitly rerouting web-server requests to filesystem server
I have just pushed this change. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Matthew Butterick mb.list.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help Jay. That worked. BTW I'm enjoying doing web programming with Racket. A small suggestion, if you keep a pile of them. It would be great to have a #:command-char keyword option in the include-template function, for two reasons. First, @-expressions are awkward in web templates. @ signs may be rare in Racket, but they're common in web pages. True, you can escape them, but if you're gluing together code from other sources, it's a layer of policing that's prone to error. So it would be convenient to designate another character. (In response to another question I posted on the list, Matthew Flatt made a bugfix that allows any unicode glyph as a command-char. So there are now zillions of options for command-chars.) Second, designating the command-char would allow multiple layers of evaluation. For instance, suppose I make my web template using scribble/text as a preprocessor, and designate ◊ as a delimiter. I designate the template fields using a different delimiter, say ∑. (e.g., ∑title, ∑body, ∑comments). In the preprocessor stage, these will just be interpreted as text. But when I use the template, I can do something like this: (include-template #:command-char ∑ template.html) Then ∑title, ∑body, and ∑comments would be interpreted as expressions in the current lexical context. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Matthew Butterick mb.list.a...@gmail.com wrote: The docs for web-server/dispatch allude to the filesystem server that lurks behind the dispatch rules to handle requests that are not handled by dispatch rules. Is there a way to explicitly send a request to the filesystem server? For instance, I have a dispatch route that checks if the requested file exists, and if not, generates it immediately and saves it to disk. However, at that point, I'd prefer to take the original request and pass it to the filesystem server. The default dispatcher chain puts the filesystem server directly after the servlet handler and then the file not found handler is after that. If you ever want to have a dispatcher skip to the next one, you can call (next-dispatcher), even if you've done work like creating a file. Alternatively, you could explicitly call the file server by embedding it into your servlet, but I don't recommend that. Jay -- Jay McCarthy j...@cs.byu.edu Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay The glory of God is Intelligence - DC 93 -- Jay McCarthy j...@cs.byu.edu Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay The glory of God is Intelligence - DC 93 _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
Re: [racket-dev] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September
On 05/08/13 17:49, Asumu Takikawa wrote: RacketCon 2013 -- We are pleased to announce that (third RacketCon) will take place on September 29, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston. This year, we plan to bring in several speakers from industry, as well as host talks from Racket developers and users. Lunch will be provided. On the Saturday (28th) before RacketCon, we plan to hold a hackathon to work on various Racket projects. Registration will open during the summer, and we will post a detailed schedule of events around the same time. The conference website is at http://con.racket-lang.org/ Asumu Takikawa and PLT Just a side comment. Can you enhance the definition of the videos this year?. The quality of the videos in youtube is very poor. _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
[racket-dev] Fwd: [Racket announcement] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September
RacketCon is listed as co-event for Lisp in Summer. Begin forwarded message: From: Asumu Takikawa as...@ccs.neu.edu Subject: [Racket announcement] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September Date: May 8, 2013 12:10:28 PM EDT To: Racket Announce annou...@racket-lang.org RacketCon 2013 -- We are pleased to announce that (third RacketCon) will take place on September 29, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston. This year, we plan to bring in several speakers from industry, as well as host talks from Racket developers and users. Lunch will be provided. On the Saturday (28th) before RacketCon, we plan to hold a hackathon to work on various Racket projects. Registration will open during the summer, and we will post a detailed schedule of events around the same time. The conference website is at http://con.racket-lang.org/ Asumu Takikawa and PLT Racket Announcements list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/announce _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
Re: [racket-dev] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September
Sorry I missed last year's RacketCon. It was held on the same weekend we had all the kids (and now grandkids) here in Denver for a long weekend. It also coincided with the American Beer Festival held in Denver, which is probably why the kids - especially our son and son-in-laws - wanted the reunion that weekend. I look forward to seeing everyone again. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Asumu Takikawa as...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: RacketCon 2013 -- We are pleased to announce that (third RacketCon) will take place on September 29, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston. This year, we plan to bring in several speakers from industry, as well as host talks from Racket developers and users. Lunch will be provided. On the Saturday (28th) before RacketCon, we plan to hold a hackathon to work on various Racket projects. Registration will open during the summer, and we will post a detailed schedule of events around the same time. The conference website is at http://con.racket-lang.org/ Asumu Takikawa and PLT _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
