[plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] How to add a new language to DrScheme?

We need the "I teach a course. How do I specialize drts to my course?"
chapter in the guide, IMO.

Robby

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> Sounds like something we need a chapter on this stuff. Carl? Ryan? --
> Matthias
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
>> Date: February 18, 2009 8:15:10 AM EST
>> To: Filipe Cabecinhas <filcab at gmail.com>
>> Cc: plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu
>> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] How to add a new language to DrScheme?
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Filipe Cabecinhas <filcab at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm trying to add a new language to DrScheme. I've already implemented
>>> main.ss, lang/reader.ss and info.ss. (so require, #lang and DrScheme all
>>> work). But I don't have my module directory inside collects, so DrScheme
>>> won't see it (module... see it because I added it to that language's
>>> collects). How can I add this directory to DrScheme? Must I change an
>>> environment variable or can I do it by changing one or two files or
>>> configuring DrScheme for that?
>>
>> The way we used to do that was to distribute a .plt file. Nowadays, we
>> recommend using planet for that, but you'd have to issue a command to
>> download it after drscheme is installed.
>>
>>> Also, I want to distribute DrScheme with this language to some students
>>> for testing. Is there a way to create a minimized installer with only
>>> scheme, DrScheme, debug tools and my language? Mind that my language
>>> needs to use MysterX, so I need to run the scripts to register the dlls.
>>> And they're architecture students, so I can't just tell them to run
>>> regsrv32 mysterx.dll :-)
>>
>> If you go the planet route, then telling them to (require (planet
>> ...)) would also trigger running whatever code you'd want, and I
>> expect that code can go register the dlls? Unless DrScheme can't be
>> running at the time you do that, in which case you'd have to tell them
>> to run the command 'planet install ...', but is that beyond them?
>>
>> If you go the .plt route, the same thing applies; you can create a
>> .plt that runs some code when it is installed to set up the
>> environment.
>>
>> Robby
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