[racket] adding 6.0 to the launchpad ppa

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Tue Apr 1 16:28:01 EDT 2014

On Apr 1, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> On 2014-04-01 11:22:04 -0700, John Clements wrote:
>> It looks like you’ve taken over the job of adding Racket to the
>> launchpad PPA. Thanks! Do you have plans to add 6.0?
> 
> Yes, I have plans, but I haven't had time to actually do it.
> 
> Since the release tarballs for 6.0 use the same build system as the
> older releases, I'm guessing it shouldn't be too bad, but the packaging
> needs to account for things like where to put the "pkgs" dir at least.

Wouldn’t you want to do the same thing that the “unix-style install” option does in the shell-script-based install?

John



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