[plt-dev] `rico' and ".rkt"
More Racket plans for discussion:
* Some of us have discussed collapsing `setup-plt', `mzc', `planet',
`plt-help' and (in case I've overlooked any) other miscellaneous
programming tools into a single `rico' executable.
The `rico' program will take a command name, similar to `svn' and
other tools. For example, `setup-plt' would become `rico setup', and
`mzc' or `mzc --make' would become `rico make'.
We could further collapse `mzscheme' into `rico run', or we could
have just `racket' instead of `rico'. An advantage of separating
`racket' and `rico' is that `racket' can keep the command-line
syntax of `mzscheme'; for example `#! racket' will work for Unix
scripts. It may also be better to keep the run-time system separate
from development tools.
* The file suffix for a Racket program could be ".rkt", but you
shouldn't have to change existing code that uses ".ss" either as a
file name or in a module reference.
We're not entirely sure how to achieve that second part, but here's
one idea that might work: In module paths names, ".ss" will be
equivalent and normalized to ".rkt". The module-name resolver,
meanwhile, will convert ".rkt" to ".ss" if only a ".ss" file is
present. So, you can migrate from ".ss" to ".rkt" at either the
definition or use of a module, independent of the other side.