[plt-dev] [Fwd: [plt-scheme] How should PLTCOLLECTS work?]

Eli's explanation should get pasted into the docs. Reading the docs
didn't communicate to me what he did.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> This problem as struck me in the past. What do other think of drscheme
> printing a warning if it can't find its own libraries at startup time? I
> think this can be done in the shell/batch script. If it can't find
> drscheme/drscheme.ss then it could issue a warning that potentially
> PLTCOLLECTS is incorrect.
>
> It would be nice to do this for mzscheme as well but I don't know of a clean
> way to do it.
>
> The doc says that:
>
> "If the PLTCOLLECTS environment variable is defined, it is combined
> with the default list using path-list-string->path-list."
>
> Setting it to "C:\collects" on Windows XP with PLt 4.1.4 results in
> this message when DrScheme is started:
>
> lib: standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found: "drscheme"
> in any of: (#<path:C:\collects>) in: (lib "drscheme/drscheme.ss")
>
> [Exited]
>
> DrScheme does not start.
>
> What did I do wrong?
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