[racket] Having no collection subdirectory in a package?

On 16/08/13 13:13, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Which version of Racket are you using?
>
> I ask because single-collection packages are only supported in v5.90.x
> --- not in v5.3.6 or earlier.

I'm using v5.3.6 and more importantly, as that is the current stable 
release, it
seems silly to release a package whose structure needs v5.90.x but which
doesn't require v5.90.x to run the code it contains.  I'll therefore 
revert to the
previous structure.


Thanks for your help


Lorry


>
> At Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:27:02 +0100, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In a previous thread about documentation, I was given the advice
>> that there was no need to have a collection subdirectory in packages
>> with a single collection.
>>
>> I therefore went from:
>>
>>       .                       Package root
>>       info.rkt                Package info.rkt
>>       xdgbasedir/             Collection directory
>>       xdgbasedir/info.rkt     Collection info.rkt
>>       xdgbasedir/main.rkt     Collection main.rkt
>>
>>
>> To:
>>
>>       .                       Package root
>>       info.rkt                Package/collection info.rkt
>>       main.rkt                Collection main.rkt
>>
>> However when ever I try to require xdgbasedir I get:
>>
>>       xdgbasedir: standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
>>         collection: "xdgbasedir"
>>         in collection directories:
>>          /home/lorry/data/dev/lib/xdgbasedir
>>          /home/lorry/.racket/5.3.6/collects
>>          /usr/lib/racket/collects in: xdgbasedir
>>
>> I have created a package link for xdgbasedir to
>> /home/lorry/data/dev/lib/xdgbasedir which
>> is the root of the package as described above.  If I recreate the
>> previous structure
>> with a collection subdirectory everything works.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>
>> Lorry
>>

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