[racket-dev] [plt] Push #22584: master branch updated

In the shorter term, is there any reason why the testing library needs
its own tool, instead of just being linked in with the teaching
languages? (That is, the teaching languages tool and the testing tool
can just become a single entry in the tools list.)

Robby

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> I did run raco setup and I have some tools disabled (in fact,
>>> everything except htdp, stepper, and lazy racket are disabled). But it
>>> still shouldnt error, right?
>>
>> I guess. One might also say the problem is that you can't disable
>> certain tools (without disabling others). I'm not sure what the proper
>> response is here.
>>
>> But generally, I'd expect the teaching languages, the stepper, and the
>> test stuff to have all be in or all be out. It doesn't seem worth the
>> effort to try to make them work independently. (Altho the maintainers
>> may disagree with me.)
>>
>> Maybe it would be good to add something so tools can register these
>> dependencies and then drracket can complain if they aren't satisfied?
>
> Yeah, I'd expect that if the Tools menu presents a list of items that
> can be enabled/disabled, you should be able to enable/disable each
> item independently of the other tools in the menu. Or at the *very*
> least, you should get a message saying "you need to enable X tool".
>
> The thing is, I've never gotten an error with my configuration of
> enabled/disabled tools until now. Was there a recent change that would
> trigger this error? I thought it was this stepper change, but after
> some fiddling, it seems that the htdp tool requires the test-engine as
> well (ie - if I have htdp enabled and test-engine disabled, I get a
> similar error).
>