[racket] Racket development: Running/compiling from source rather than from a pre-built collection

Patrick,

I usually keep multiple single-directory (i.e. not unix-style) Racket
installs around, including one for development. I keep each install
separate, and switch between them using this script:

    https://github.com/takikawa/racket-dev-goodies/blob/master/plt-bin

Vincent


At Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:12:01 -0400,
Patrick Mahoney wrote:
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> Hello again,
> 
> I was able to resolve my problem. First I renamed the frtime collection in
> the install path. This resulted in racket complaining that the collection
> couldn't be found. Next, I linked to the collection within the frtime
> source directory.
> 
> raco link path/to/github/repo/directory
> 
> Following linking to this location, the language declaration resolved to
> the frtime language within my github tree.
> 
> Thanks all,
> -Patrick
> 
> On 24 July 2012 18:52, Patrick Mahoney <paddy.mahoney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I forked the github Racket repo, and created a new branch in order to
> > update Frtime from the scheme or mzscheme #langs to Racket. This has been
> > progressing well, until I ran into a small issue that I think likely
> > affects most individuals working on Racket source for which collections
> > exist in the collection paths.
> >
> > (module animation frtime
> > ...
> >
> >
> > -Despite making changes to the frtime language, excising the scheme and
> > mzscheme languages within the source that was checked out, it became
> > apparent that this declaration and others referring to collections were
> > relying on the imports defined from the mzscheme lang. After running Check
> > Syntax, right-clicking on the lang declaration, and opening the files all
> > the way down to a file where changes had been made (say lang-utils.rkt),
> > the unedited source was visible. This source showing (sans my edits) was
> > that found within the C:/Program Files/Racket/collects/frtime directory,
> > rather than my github racket source directory.
> >
> > How does one go about unregistering a collection such that all references
> > to that collection subsequently look not into the collections directory,
> > but compile and run the files from within your checked out source? I guess
> > this question could likely could be generalized to, "How do Racket
> > developers make edits to source files backing collections and run them
> > without references to collections referring to the pre-compiled
> > collections, or those in the Racket installation?". I am interested in how
> > to resolve this problem, and I apologize that I don't yet know the language
> > well enough to formulate the problem in the correct terms.
> >
> > Can anyone provide some guidance here?
> >
> > For anyone interested in the branch itself, find it at:
> > https://github.com/paddymahoney/racket/commits/frtime-update
> >
> > Thank you all!
> > -Patrick
> >
> >
> >
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