[racket] DrRacket Tools/plugins info wanted

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 29 13:01:31 EDT 2013

[moved to dev@] Would it be something to shoot for with the package-based
release: only getting a minimal set of tools/plugins (like Stephen's set)
when the drracket package is the only one installed (starting from a
minimal racket)?

Robby


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I delete anything that I recognise & don't use, (and leave the stuff I
> don't understand alone).
>
> I remove the teaching languages, slideshow, swindle, lazy.
>
> If you find racket doesn't launch you can always manually edit the
> preferences file.
>
> My suggested working minimum is
> Check Syntax
> Graphical Debugger
> Macro Stepper
>
> I like to include RackUnit
>
>
> HTH
>
> Stephen
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> --
> Stephen De Gabrielle <http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jon Kleiser <jon.kleiser at usit.uio.no>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On one of my older Macs, DrRacket uses quite some time to launch, and I
>> wondered if disabling some of the 17 Tools in the Preferences could help.
>> Before disabling any of these, however, I'd like some info about what they
>> really do. Looking here didn't make me any wiser:
>> <http://docs.racket-lang.org/**drracket/prefs-explanation.**
>> html#%28part._.Tools%29<http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/prefs-explanation.html#%28part._.Tools%29>
>> >
>> ... except that those "tools" are also called "plugins".
>>
>> I cannot see that this page <http://docs.racket-lang.org/**tools/<http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/>>
>> has the info that I'm looking for either.
>>
>> /Jon
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