[racket] developing tools

Also, this might help with the dynamic-require approach:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/drracket_get_extend.html?q=drracket%3Aget/extend%3Adisallow-re-extension%21#%28def._%28%28lib._drracket%2Ftool-lib..rkt%29._drracket~3aget%2Fextend~3adisallow-re-extension%21%29%29

Robby



On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:

> Thanks Laurent & Jens,
>
> Much appreciated.
>
> Stephen
>
>
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> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net>wrote:
>
>> When writing code that require DrRacket to restart I usually open two
>> DrRackets. In one instance of DrRacket I write the code - this is usually
>> in an old version. In the other I test the code. This way I don't need to
>> reopen the source file after each restart.
>>
>> Another tip: To make DrRacket restart faster remove all tools you don't
>> need. DrRacket actually start very faster with no tools.
>>
>>
>>
>>  2013/8/31 Stephen De Gabrielle <stephen.degabrielle at acm.org>
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm starting to fiddle with DrRacket plugin ideas (again), and I was
>>> wondering if any tool developers can share their processes for developing
>>> tools,
>>>
>>> What I used to do was dump my tool in a collects directory and run 'raco
>>> -L toolname', followed by restarting-the-Doctor. If it failed I would
>>> remove the tool from /collects/ and restart again.
>>>
>>> This is a bit frustrating as it can be quite time consuming, and I
>>> disable as many tools as possible to make restarts quicker.
>>>
>>> Is there a better way to develop plugins?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
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