[racket] raco exe and collection path

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the equivalent to DrRacket's Collection Paths setting might be
> to use the PLTCOLLECTS environment variable? See:
>
>     http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/collects.html
>
> Also there are a number of command-line flags; I'm not sure which
> corresponds to exactly what you need:
>
> $ racket -h
> ...
>   -X <dir>, --collects <dir> : Main collects at <dir> (or "" disables all)
>   -S <dir>, --search <dir> : More collects at <dir> (after main collects)
>   -A <dir>, --addon <dir> : Addon directory at <dir>
>   -R <paths>, --compiled <paths> : Set compiled-file search roots to <paths>
>   -C <file>, --links <file> : User-specific collection links at <file>
> ...

`-S` is the one that's like `PLTCOLLECTS`.

But more generally, I would strongly encourage Erik (and others) not
to use PLTCOLLECTS or its analogues, but instead to use the package
system (or `raco link`).

`raco link` is probably the simplest thing to do here, like so:

    raco link -d /home/epearson/work/racket/github

That should set up all the collections you have.

Better still would be to set up a package, even one locally that you
don't distribute.

Sam


>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Erik Pearson <erik at adaptations.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've just switched over to the Racket github master from 5.3.6. It is set up
>> well enough that development proceeds normally. I have setup a collection
>> directory which contains libraries that I'm developing and upon which my
>> main projects depend. For DrRacket work I have used Language -> Choose
>> Language ... -> Collection Paths to set this up, putting my collection path
>> at the top so that it can override the system path if it needs to. Works
>> great.
>>
>> But this Collection Paths setting does not seem to be honored by Racket ->
>> Create Executable. Similarly from the command line raco exe does not seem to
>> be using these preferences, nor can I figure out how to tell raco to use my
>> collection directory.
>>
>> The specific error message I am getting is:
>>
>> /home/epearson/work/racket/coco/scgi-server.rkt:4:8: collection not found
>>   for module path: (lib "racqueb/scgi2")
>>   collection: "racqueb"
>>   in collection directories:
>>    /home/epearson/.racket/development/collects
>>    /home/epearson/work/racket/plt/plt/racket/collects
>>   context...:
>>    show-collection-err
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>
>> /home/epearson/work/racket/plt/plt/racket/collects/compiler/embed.rkt:394:0:
>> get-code
>>
>> /home/epearson/work/racket/plt/plt/racket/collects/compiler/embed.rkt:993:0:
>> do-write-module-bundle
>>
>> /home/epearson/work/racket/plt/plt/racket/collects/compiler/embed.rkt:1517:51
>>
>> /home/epearson/work/racket/plt/plt/racket/collects/compiler/private/elf.rkt:190:6:
>> temp19
>>
>> As you can see, is using the default collection paths, and not the one that
>> I've added via DrRacket preferences, which would be
>> /home/epearson/work/racket/github.
>>
>> So, the question is -- first, I guess this might be considered a bug in
>> DrRacket -- since Create Executable is not using the same collection paths
>> as the IDE? Second, is there a way to supply raco exe and distribute with a
>> new collection path? Ideally I would just supply a new one which is added to
>> the top of the path list, but I could also just reconstruct the collection
>> path list from scratch if need be. (The docs for create-embedding-executable
>> imply this.)
>>
>> (BTW I'm not implying that anything has changed in this regard from 5.3.6.
>> In 5.3.6 I had used links to the individual libraries, but in github master
>> I had switched to using the collection paths, which is less maintenance and
>> allows seamless shadowing of system libraries with custom replacements.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik.
>>
>>
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