Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT(2): Single vs multi-collection packages
Ah, that's cool. Looking forward to it! And the in-url thing would be useful indeed for gists for example. Laurent On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Yes, I really want to try and get to look into doing this. The thing is that multi-collection libraries are going to be a common case for plt packages (which will get pulled out from the main repository), but the single-collection ones are going to be the much more popular case elsewhere. (And I also still dream on doing some `url-in' to require a single file, since that's also an important mode of quick sharing. But that's another story.) 10 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: The Racket package system doesn't support packages that aren't collection roots. Eli has said that he wants to implement such a feature, but it is not available today. Jay On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Laurent laurent.ors...@gmail.com wrote: I'm willing to upgrade my packages for the new PLaneT system, but one thing that pushes me back is the fact that I need to create a directory for my package and a subdirectory for the collection(s). But most of my packages are (and will probably be) single-collection packages, and it hurts my logic to have to modify my directory tree for that purpose. I know there have been several discussions already about this, but perhaps there is a simple fix: Maybe there could be a `single-collection?' entry in the info.rkt file which, when true, would tell `raco pkg install' to create itself a directory for the package that has the same name as the collection it contains? -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT(2): Single vs multi-collection packages
To clarify, because of reasons that I won't go into on the list, the actual chances of me getting this implemented (and of such a change being accepted) are pretty much in the area of slim to none. TBH, the chances of implementing an `in-url' are low too, but they're probably higher than going into the package system. 40 minutes ago, Laurent wrote: Ah, that's cool. Looking forward to it! And the in-url thing would be useful indeed for gists for example. Laurent On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Yes, I really want to try and get to look into doing this. The thing is that multi-collection libraries are going to be a common case for plt packages (which will get pulled out from the main repository), but the single-collection ones are going to be the much more popular case elsewhere. (And I also still dream on doing some `url-in' to require a single file, since that's also an important mode of quick sharing. But that's another story.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT(2): Single vs multi-collection packages
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: To clarify, because of reasons that I won't go into on the list, the actual chances of me getting this implemented (and of such a change being accepted) are pretty much in the area of slim to none. That's a bummer. At first sight I'd have thought that it would have just been a matter of creating a directory with the same name as the package, and then decompressing the package into that directory. But I guess things are always way more complicated than at first sight... TBH, the chances of implementing an `in-url' are low too, but they're probably higher than going into the package system. That would be nice, but I'd much much prefer to see the single-collection package thing implemented. Laurent _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
