[racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Gour
Hello, my 1st post here...by 'accident' I stumbled upon Floss Weekly episode about Racket, liked it, visited web sites, read few posts (Why Lisp? Why Racket? is *very* inspirational), watched some RacketCon videos, skimmed over mailing list archive...and now have a question. For some time I am

Re: [racket-users] Racket and FastCGI

2015-04-03 Thread Lux
If you want to use SCGI instead of FastCGI: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-scgi/ I am trying with lighttpd. I placed the following example on /home/lux/served/scgi-test/scgi.rtk: -- #lang racket (require (planet neil/scgi:2:3))

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Alexander D. Knauth
On Apr 3, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: I've found the following: Sadly, RacketGUI lacks some advanced controls I often want: trees tables containing controls in cells However the list-box% control supports cells that only contain text. tree-tables “

Re: [racket-users] Racket and FastCGI

2015-04-03 Thread Lux
Thanks for your welcoming words, Vincent. For some reasons I was certain Racket github repository was a sort of mirror of the real almost secret repository where superheroes are working hard to make it real... I will join and see if I can adapt. I've used scribble initially to document my

[racket-users] raco exe can't build executables on OpenBSD

2015-04-03 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
When I use a racket version built from source everything works fine but the OpenBSD port has some problems. $ cat mytest.rkt #lang racket (displayln (+ 1 1)) $ racket mytest.rkt 2 $ raco exe mytest.rkt open-output-file: cannot open output file path: /home/juanfra/racket-fallo-exe/exe/mytest

Re: [racket-users] Racket and FastCGI

2015-04-03 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:14:12 -0700 (PDT), Lux wrote: Also, as I use -intensively- Racket docs every day I need to know how I can (if it is possible) contribute providing some sample code here and here, as I think this is something where it is severely lacking. A small snippet showing how to use

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:40:18 +0200, Gour wrote: So, it looks, (almost) everything is there present in Racket, so I wonder whether you consider that writing desktop GUI app is suitable niche for Racket making one productive and still getting decent performance? I have written GUI applications

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Alexander D. Knauth
On Apr 3, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Alexander D. Knauth alexan...@knauth.org wrote: On Apr 3, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: I've found the following: Sadly, RacketGUI lacks some advanced controls I often want: trees tables containing controls in cells However

Re: [racket-users] Racket and FastCGI

2015-04-03 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Fri, 3 Apr 2015 08:14:10 -0700 (PDT), Lux wrote: Thanks for your welcoming words, Vincent. For some reasons I was certain Racket github repository was a sort of mirror of the real almost secret repository where superheroes are working hard to make it real... The core repo is indeed a