[racket] DrRacket package suggestions

Looking at the code, it seems like I'd need to make DrRacket do the
task between lines 314 and 337 in by-list.rkt. I could add a button to
the error message printout that offered to initialize (or maybe
update?) the package table when it gets a exn:missing-module?
exception, but there are no suggestions.

Would that be useful?

Robby


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Sat, 3 May 2014 01:24:55 -0400, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
>> Since the call to `pkg-catalog-suggestions-for-module` doesn't specify a
>> catalog file, I think it uses the default value of the parameter. But
>> the default catalog file doesn't seem to contain much useful
>> information: [...]
>
> When you use the "Available from Catalog" panel in the GUI package
> manager, then the local package database is populated, and then
> DrRacket starts making suggestions.
>
> The original idea was that we'd distribute Racket with a pre-populated
> package database, but we didn't get around to doing that.
>