[racket] pkg/info.rkt documentation

From: Asumu Takikawa (asumu at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 2 02:18:09 EST 2015

(Whoops, I meant to CC the list and forgot. Apologies for duplication)

On 2015-01-01 22:12:13 -0600, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
> I'm feeling a bit dense and/or blind. Is there documentation for the
> info.rkt format that raco pkg expects? I managed to make something that
> works by cribbing off of an existing package, but I'm not sure what (define
> collection 'multi) means (or what the alternative is), nor how to figure out
> what should go in deps beyond "base". Did I miss a "pkg for dummies"
> document?

Maybe you've already seen it and it wasn't helpful, but there is a
"package metadata" page that tries to explain some of this.

  http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/current/doc/pkg/metadata.html

The version I just linked is a pre-release version, which also has an
extra margin note explaining that there are more options for info.rkt
that control collection features (rather than package features).

There's also a new raco command (`raco pkg new`) by Leif that produces a
default info.rkt for you.

Cheers,
Asumu

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