[plt-scheme] Re: how do you include documentation with a teachpack or planet collection?

At 6:21 PM -0400 6/13/07, I wrote:
>I'm reading the doc in the help desk about creating and contributing 
>a PLaneT collection.  I've written up an info.ss file, a doc.txt 
>file, and some HTML doc in a folder named in html-docs.  I've 
>converted the whole directory into a .plt file, either with mzc 
>--plt and with planet --create-archive.  I've tried installing the 
>thing, either with (require (planet ...))
>or with "Install .plt file...".  I get the function definitions, but 
>the Help Desk doesn't seem to see any of the documentation.

I now also have an hdindex file inside the html-docs folder, but I 
must be missing something very basic.

As far as I can tell, all the documentation for the standard-issue 
teachpacks is in $PLT_DIR/doc/teachpack/ .  The standard-issue 
teachpacks themselves are in $PLT_DIR/collects/teachpack/htdp/ , 
except that those are really three-line stubs that require something 
from PLT_DIR/collects/htdp/ , which happens to include a "compiled" 
subdirectory with all the .zo files.  I don't know if I can mimic 
this distribution of files into three different directories with my 
own .plt installation, and I'm not sure why I should want to except 
that it works for the standard-issue stuff.

As far as I can tell, when I use "Language->Add Teachpack->Add 
Teachpack to List", it copies the source code of the specified 
teachpack into $USER_PLT_DIR/371/collects/installed-teachpacks, 
creates a "compiled" subdirectory within this if it's not already 
there, and compiles the teachpack into this "compiled" subdirectory. 
I can do that, and I can create a .plt file that puts all the right 
files in the right places (assuming there's already a 
$USER_PLT_DIR/371/collects/installed-teachpacks directory and the 
user specifies it as the place to unpack the .plt file), but the Help 
Desk still doesn't recognize anything in my teachpack.

Here's my goal: create a file (presumably a .plt) that my 
English-major students can install, in one easy step (preferably 
without needing to specify WHERE to install it; it should know by 
itself), after which
(a) the "tiles.ss" teachpack will appear on the list of available 
teachpacks in the teaching languages (I don't care whether it's on 
the left side or the right), and
(b) when they add that teachpack, they get a properly compiled 
version (presumably .zo), and
(c) when they add that teachpack and type the name of one of its 
functions into the Help Desk, they'll see the documentation.  (If 
they could also see the documentation WITHOUT adding the teachpack 
first, that would be nice but not required.)
Is that possible?

-- 
					Stephen Bloch
					sbloch at adelphi.edu