[plt-scheme] Planet for non-lib apps

On 2/23/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> PLaneT works hard so that no one has to worry about where things get
> installed, etc.  It isn't currently really designed for standalone
> application installations.
>

OK, thank you. That's what I thought but I needed confirmation.

> If you expect your clients to already have drscheme installed, then
> you can provide fairly simple instructions via planet (see the new -P
> flag in mzscheme for example), but if not, you probably want to check
> out bundle-dist.ss (search in Help Desk).
>

Ah, great! Didn't know about bundle-dist.ss. :-)

Thanks,

Paulo Matos

> hth,
> Robby
>
> On 2/23/07, Paulo J. Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm quite curious if planet is suited for compiling/installing
> > applications, instead of libs which seems to be the general case from
> > what I see in planet homepage. As an application developer what's the
> > best way to pack my app for planet so that the user is able to decide
> > where is gets installed (and how to compile it by the way), be it
> > /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin/, etc..
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
> > http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
> > PhD Student @ ECS
> > University of Southampton, UK
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>
>


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Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK