[racket] racket ppa for ubuntu

JFYI I plan to try and do this in addition to the usual files that get
copied (by both `make' and the installers).  Recently I was told that
they locations for these things is stable enough to have them done by
the project.


A few minutes ago, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> Whoops, forgot about this -- I'll see what I can do.
> 
> On 09/04/2011 08:27 PM, Doug Orleans wrote:
> > Did this go anywhere?  It would definitely be cool to see DrRacket in
> > the Ubuntu Applications menu.
> >
> > A screenshot in the Ubuntu Software Center would be nice too, but I
> > don't know where that comes from (doesn't seem to be part of the
> > .desktop file).  Oh hm, does it get them from
> > http://screenshots.debian.net/ ?  Anyone want to upload some there?
> >
> > --Doug
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> >> Thanks Todd, I'll look into integrating these files.
> >>
> >> On 02/19/2011 08:46 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> >>> I don't think they do.
> >>>
> >>> I've created a compressed /usr/share directory that, if unpacked and
> >>> merged with what's already there, should register a mime type for
> >>> application-x-racket, create a menu item in Applications/Programming,
> >>> and create icons for both .rkt files and DrRacket itself.
> >>>
> >>> Here's a link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10388887/usr.zip
> >>>
> >>> I don't know how complicated it is to add such supplementary files to
> >>> an Ubuntu package, but Jon is more than welcome to do so if he wants
> >>> to use my archive. After adding these, you do have to update the gnome
> >>> icon cache and the mime type cache, but I think that mostly happens
> >>> automatically after a package install.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not 100% sure this works, but it should be pretty close.
> >>>
> >>> Todd
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Brian Mastenbrook
> >>> <brian at mastenbrook.net> wrote:
> >>>> On 2/15/2011 4:30 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> >>>>> I just updated this package for 5.1 so if you installed it before you
> >>>>> should be able to update racket (I forget the commands exactly, maybe
> >>>>> just uninstall and reinstall). Unfortunately you still have to use the
> >>>>> -f flag.
> >>>> Am I missing something or do these packages not install .desktop files so
> >>>> that DrRacket et al show up in the system applications menu?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Brian Mastenbrook
> >>>> brian at mastenbrook.net
> >>>> http://brian.mastenbrook.net/
> >>>>
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