[plt-dev] Re: renaming programs in the distribution

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 21 10:10:51 EDT 2010

On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
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> On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> We should have a real GUI command 'thing'. Something that
> is kind of like a file finder for a regular OS but a command
> finder in our world. It should of course be extensible so that
> we can plug in other tools.
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>> DrRacket is this, but with a much better UI (IMO).
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> Huh?

 The various GUI tools that we have are generally found in drscheme's
UI (check syntax etc) or as libraries in a program run in drs
(slideshow).

This seems better to me that trying to automatically make some kind of
a GUI menu system out of a list of commandline executables.

Robby


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