Re: [racket-users] Re: preferences file
William, that's a neat idea, I'll try your package. Thanks! --Geoff -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [racket-users] Re: preferences file
Recent discussion thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/6hn9J-r0Nek Since we're discussing dotfiles and I missed the previous thread, I'm going to shamelessly promote my basedir package[1], which provides functions for conveniently reading/writing config files according to the XDG base directory specification (eg. in ~/.config/, or similar directory on Windows) respecting the standard environment variables. Using the standard also makes it more convenient for a user to have parts of their configuration in multiple files, eg. having both public and private components, as well as local and global components, and have the parts composed together. Let's not clutter up home directories anymore with one-off config files or directories. Let's let them live in a sane and configurable space. [1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/basedir/index.html -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [racket-users] Re: preferences file
Awesome, Neil, great suggestions! -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [racket-users] Re: preferences file
For a "home directory dotfile" kind of preferences file that's arbitrary Racket code, I'd do `dynamic-require` instead of `require`. If you want to use `require` instead, maybe the application is a framework, and the user-specific `.rkt` file is the program that is run and is what `require`s the framework. Recent discussion thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/6hn9J-r0Nek If you don't want arbitrary code in your dotfile, then maybe use the Racket reader with some of the features disabled. (When I've done this, I went through the current documentation for the reader, and wrote a procedure that does the read while explicitly disabling each reader feature that was problematic.) But I prefer the programmer-centric arbitrary-code way for many purposes now, like I say in that earlier discussion thread. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[racket-users] Re: preferences file
The following seems to work for me: (require (file "~/.dbaccess.rkt")) Is that normal / ok ? Just wondering what other people do. Geoff On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 12:35:25 PM UTC-4, Geoffrey Knauth wrote: > > Let's suppose I want to have a preferences file, e.g., "~/.dbaccess.rkt". > I used to have a module I would import via > "../some-relative-path/dbaccess.rkt", but I thought I would try > "~/.dbaccess.rkt" as a module path. It turned out a module path cannot > begin with "/", which happens with the expansion of "~" (it seems). > > This leads me to the more general question, what do other people do, what > is the convention when, say, they will have a GitHub repo with generally > public code, but some private files with, say, database-access codes that > are specific to a person's use of a package? > > Geoff > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
