[plt-scheme] Overview of the various pieces of PLT?

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On May  3, i j wrote:
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > On May  3, i j wrote:
>> >> * Is MrED the GUI toolkit for PLT?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>> Why does this page http://docs.plt-scheme.org/gui/index.html refer
>> to MrEd as an executable?
>
> Because it is: in its core, it is a C/++ application with mzscheme
> embeded, so you run it just like you run mzscheme.  (And the amount of
> C code has been significantly reduced in the subversion head, btw.)
>

Ah, ok. The executable is "mred" (right there in my ~/opt/plt/bin next
to mzscheme) and as Matthew points out below it uses the 'scheme/gui'
lib (which evidently is a binding to PLT's fork of wx).

Thank you.