[plt-scheme] Creating a plt file

I'm not sure, exactly, but Jacob has made a helper function that builds
.plt files for planet, called make-planet-archive. Does that work for
you?

Robby

At Sat, 07 Aug 2004 13:17:57 -0400, Pedro Pinto wrote:
> Actually planet is the larger goal. I was trying to create a plt file 
> that could be used by planet, and the docs state that this file should 
> install to a user-specified directory. When testing I was surprised to 
> see that no compilation happened but perhaps when installing through 
> planet this is not the case?
> 
> -pp
> 
> 
> Robby Findler wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what the larger goals are, but you may want to check out 
> > planet (at http://planet.plt-scheme.org/)
> >
> > Robby
> >
> > On Aug 7, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >
> >>   For list-related administrative tasks:
> >>   http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
> >>
> >> At Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:38:08 -0400, Pedro Pinto wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am changing a plt file to install to a user specified directory as
> >>> opposed to the add-ons directory. [...]
> >>>
> >>> The plt gets created, but when I use DrScheme to install it none of  
> >>> the
> >>> collection files get compiled (they do get extracted).
> >>
> >>
> >> If the archive is not unpacked in a collection directory --- either
> >> "plt/collects", the add-ons "collects", or something in PLTCOLLECTS ---
> >> then it's not really a "collection".
> >>
> >> For the compilation step to unpacking, the .plt installer looks for an
> >> actual collection to compile, and presumably it doesn't find one.
> >>
> >> So, I think you're seeing the intended behavior, in the sense that the
> >> compilation step is intended to work (so far) only for packages that
> >> are installed as collections.
> >>
> >> Matthew
> >>
> >>
> >
> >