[racket-dev] PLaneT(2): Single vs multi-collection packages

Ah, that's cool. Looking forward to it!
And the in-url thing would be useful indeed for gists for example.

Laurent


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> Yes, I really want to try and get to look into doing this.  The thing
> is that multi-collection libraries are going to be a common case for
> plt packages (which will get pulled out from the main repository), but
> the single-collection ones are going to be the much more popular case
> elsewhere.
>
> (And I also still dream on doing some `url-in' to require a single
> file, since that's also an important mode of quick sharing.  But
> that's another story.)
>
>
> 10 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> > The Racket package system doesn't support packages that aren't
> > collection roots. Eli has said that he wants to implement such a
> > feature, but it is not available today.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I'm willing to upgrade my packages for the new PLaneT system, but one
> thing
> > > that pushes me back is the fact that I need to create a directory for
> my
> > > package and a subdirectory for the collection(s).
> > >
> > > But most of my packages are (and will probably be) single-collection
> > > packages, and it hurts my logic to have to modify my directory tree
> for that
> > > purpose.
> > >
> > > I know there have been several discussions already about this, but
> perhaps
> > > there is a simple fix:
> > > Maybe there could be a `single-collection?' entry in the info.rkt file
> > > which, when true, would tell `raco pkg install' to create itself a
> directory
> > > for the package that has the same name as the collection it contains?
>
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