[plt-scheme] PLT Redex w/ 301.13

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed May 31 15:23:30 EDT 2006

Yes, Richard's right. See the documentation for suitable values of
[file].

Robby

At Wed, 31 May 2006 15:02:35 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:39:23AM -0700, Paul A. Steckler wrote:
> > I'm running DrScheme version 301.13-svn9may2006 on Linux, because 
> > the latest legit release crashes on startup.
> > 
> > When I put 
> > 
> >   (require (planet "[file]" ("robby" "redex.plt" 2 2)))
> > 
> > in my program, I get the message:
> > 
> >   open-input-file: cannot open input file: 
> >    "/home/steck/.plt-scheme/planet/300/301.13/cache/robby/redex.plt/2/2/[file]"
> >    (No such file or directory; errno=2)
> > 
> > What do I need to do to get the PLaneT package to load?
> 
> Pardon what may be a really stupid question, but are you really typing 
>     [ f i l e ]
> between the open quotes right after "(planet", or is that a placeholder
> that you introduced just for this email message?
> 
> If you're literally typing that, then no, that won't work.  The [file]
> business is just a placeholder that appears there on the web page if the
> package author didn't provide a value for the primary-file setting in
> the package's info.ss file.
> 
> To install the package, you have a couple of options.  If there's a link
> to the documentation on the planet web page, read that to get the name
> of the actual .ss files in the package.  Otherwise, you'll probably have
> to use the planet command-line tool to install the thing.
> 
> (Perhaps we should find a better way to handle the situation of missing
> primary-file settings....)
> 
> Richard
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