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

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 26 17:25:03 EDT 2010

At Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:20:31 -0600, Ryan Culpepper 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.

Yes, I think that removing the suffixes is a good idea.



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