[plt-scheme] How to download/install a Planet file

Thanks!

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Stephen Bloch<sbloch at adelphi.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>
>> I have a student who doesn't have internet and I'm trying to give her
>> a CD with DrScheme and Stephen Bloch's tiles and sb-world teachpacks.
>>
>> I know there's an "Install PLT File..." menu item, but how do I
>> download tiles.plt from Planet to put it on the CD?
>
>> Stephen, will the student have to do anything special to get the
>> teachpack to show up in the list?
>
> Here are two possible ways to do it.  One approach:
>
> 1) planet fetch sbloch tiles.plt 1 13    [and similarly with sb-world.plt 1
> 5]
> This downloads the .plt file into the current directory.
>
> 2) Copy the two .plt files and the DrScheme installer onto the CD.  Give the
> CD to your student.
>
> Subsequent steps are to be done by your student on his/her home computer.
>
> 3) Run the DrScheme installer.
>
> 4) cd to the directory where the .plt files are (either on the CD, or copy
> them to the hard disk first).
>
> 5) planet fileinject sbloch tiles.plt 1 13 [and similarly with sb-world.plt
> 1 5]
> This will unpack the .plt file, compile its Scheme source to .zos, and
> re-index the help files to include the documentation for the package.  The
> help re-indexing may take several minutes.
>
> 6) Find where each of the .plt files was unpacked and run its "install.ss"
> file (e.g. by double-clicking to open it in DrScheme, then clicking "Run").
>  On my Mac, they live in
>
> ~/Library/PLT Scheme/planet/300/4.2.1/sbloch/tiles.plt/1/13/
> and
> ~/Library/PLT Scheme/planet/300/4.2.1/sbloch/sb-world.plt/1/5/
> respectively.  I don't remember where they are on Windows or Linux.
> Each of the two "install.ss" files should print a message in the
> Interactions pane that says "Wrote file to installed-teachpacks directory."
>
> 7) DrScheme's Language->Add Teachpack dialogue should now show the two
> teachpacks in question, and the Help Desk should include documentation for
> the functions in the teachpacks.
>
> 8) If you wish, you can delete the two .plt files, and even the install.ss
> files.
>
>
> Alternative approach (requires that you have the same kind of computer as
> your student has, but is less work for your student).
>
> 1) follow the "require" instructions in chapter 1 of my book, on a computer
> with the same operating system as your student's.  It may take several
> minutes to re-index help files.
>
> 2) Then copy the DrScheme installer from wherever it is, and the
> user-specific add-ons directory (from ~/Library/PLT Scheme or
> I-don't-remember-where-on-Windows), onto the CD.  Give the CD to your
> student.
>
> Subsequent steps to be done by your student on his/her home computer.
>
> 3) Run the DrScheme installer.
>
> 4) Copy the add-ons directory from the CD into wherever it's supposed to be.
>  (Presumably you tell your student where it belongs.)
>
> 5) Run DrScheme, and the Language->Add Teachpack dialogue should now show
> the two teachpacks in question, and the Help Desk should include
> documentation for the functions in the teachpacks.
>
> Let me know if you have trouble with this.
>
> Stephen Bloch
> sbloch at adelphi.edu
>