Re: [racket-users] How to run multiple Racket installations?

2020-05-09 Thread Simon Schlee
You could use the nix package manager https://nixos.org/nix/ it runs on many linux platforms and macOS. It has predefined racket and racket-minimal packages, you can define derived versions of those packages and adapt them to your needs. It allows you to easily switch between different

Re: [racket-users] How to run multiple Racket installations?

2020-05-08 Thread James Platt
Would virtual machines be an option? You do have to have a pretty good host machine with lots of RAM. I do this mainly to have different development and testing environments. It works pretty smoothly on my Mac Pro, with VirtualBox for Linux and Windows guest machines and VMWare for macOS

Re: [racket-users] How to run multiple Racket installations?

2020-05-08 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 8 May 2020 01:55:17 -0700 (PDT), zeRusski wrote: > First, does that even work? I noticed that both of them install packages > into ~/Library/Racket/development/ for me. Are both builds so compatible I > don't need to worry about packages stepping on each others toes i.e. > compiled with

Re: [racket-users] How to run multiple Racket installations?

2020-05-08 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
This is the tooling I use: https://github.com/takikawa/racket-dev-goodies/ Note that it works primarily with "in-place" installations. Sam On Fri, May 8, 2020, 4:55 AM zeRusski wrote: > I have two builds of Racket on my local machine. Racket CS resides in one > directory and was built with