[plt-dev] .mzschemerc => .racketrc and more

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 26 17:23:53 EDT 2010

I agree.

Also, how will the PLT* env vars change?

Jay

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Matthew Flatt wrote:
>>
>> Just pushed:
>>
>>  old             new              notes
>>  -----------     ---------        -------------------------------
>>  .mzschemerc     .racketrc        even `mzscheme' uses ".racketrc"
>>  .mredrc         .gracketrc       even `mred' uses ".gracketrc"
>>  ~/.plt-scheme   ~/.racket        Unix user-specific dir
>>  ..../PLT Scheme ..../Racket      Windows & Mac OS user-specific dir
>>  plt-prefs.ss    racket-prefs.rkt Unix & Windows pref file
>>  org.plt-scheme.prefs.ss          Mac pref file
>>                          ^
>>                   org.racket-lang.prefs.rkt    etc.
>
> How about using a different suffix for "data in S-expression form" such as
> the prefs files. I interpret an .rkt suffix as indicating an executable
> program.
>
> Or the suffix could be dropped entirely.
>
> Ryan
>
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