[racket-dev] Getting Started install instructions

2012-05-01 Thread Asumu Takikawa
Hi all, I've long thought that the Getting Started page in the documentation is too sparse, so I discussed with Ryan and added some more content to it. The intent is to try to answer some frequent questions that beginners ask (e.g., do I want the `racket` or the `drracket` executable?). Ideally,

Re: [racket-dev] Getting Started install instructions

2012-05-01 Thread Eli Barzilay
40 minutes ago, Asumu Takikawa wrote: Ideally, I'd like to link to platform-specific installation instructions for Racket, but I couldn't find any on the Racket home page. Do we have a page that we can link to for this purpose? 1. No. The download page does try to detect your platform and

Re: [racket-dev] Getting Started install instructions

2012-05-01 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2012-05-01 16:04:18 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: 1. No. The download page does try to detect your platform and put the relevant download(s) first, but I don't think that even for this use case the decision should be made automatically based on that guess. What I was getting at is

Re: [racket-dev] Getting Started install instructions

2012-05-01 Thread Eli Barzilay
10 minutes ago, Asumu Takikawa wrote: What I was getting at is that there are no installation instructions linked from the Download page. What I mean is something like these: * http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ Three ways of installing Ruby * http://typesafe.com/stack/download