[racket] DrRacket Tools/plugins info wanted

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 30 08:42:51 EDT 2013

I think it would also help if the doc pages cited by the OP were to list all tools coming with the main distribution and explain how to disable them a bit more. That's less work than coding. -- Matthias






On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> [moved to dev@] Would it be something to shoot for with the package-based release: only getting a minimal set of tools/plugins (like Stephen's set) when the drracket package is the only one installed (starting from a minimal racket)?
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I delete anything that I recognise & don't use, (and leave the stuff I don't understand alone).
> 
> I remove the teaching languages, slideshow, swindle, lazy. 
>  
> If you find racket doesn't launch you can always manually edit the preferences file.
> 
> My suggested working minimum is 
> Check Syntax
> Graphical Debugger
> Macro Stepper
> 
> I like to include RackUnit
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Stephen
> <image.png>
> 
> --
> Stephen De Gabrielle
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jon Kleiser <jon.kleiser at usit.uio.no> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On one of my older Macs, DrRacket uses quite some time to launch, and I wondered if disabling some of the 17 Tools in the Preferences could help. Before disabling any of these, however, I'd like some info about what they really do. Looking here didn't make me any wiser:
> <http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/prefs-explanation.html#%28part._.Tools%29>
> ... except that those "tools" are also called "plugins".
> 
> I cannot see that this page <http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/> has the info that I'm looking for either.
> 
> /Jon
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