[racket] New Package for Racket: cellular automata

Deren Dohoda wrote at 05/09/2014 12:34 AM:
> Hi Racketeers,
>
> I have a package for elementary cellular automata which I have 
> successfully created, complete with docs, tested locally, pushed to 
> github and then test installed. Thanks a lot for the documentation on 
> this process, it was very clear.
>
> Unfortunately I must admit I was sorely lost in figuring out the 
> info.rkt file that would describe this package in some kind of 
> meaningful way. I'd like to put this up on the package list for others 
> to play with but what should I be sure I have in my info.rkt file 
> before I do so? Are there specific fields that I should consider a 
> minimum that aren't mentioned in "Getting Started with Packages"?
>

You can look at these, although some are specific to the old package 
system, PLaneT, and might not have an effect in the new package system:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet/Developing_Packages_for_PLaneT.html?q=homepage#%28part._.Create_an__info_rkt__.File__.Optional_%29

If you were using McFly, it would automatically create a template 
"info.rkt" for you with most everything in it, or programmatically 
update your existing "info.rkt" with useful variables that you missed 
(and then McFly incorporates some of this information into standard 
places in your documentation, so that you only have to specify it in one 
place, in "info.rkt"):

http://www.neilvandyke.org/mcfly-tools/#%28part._.Initializing_a_.Package%29

Neil V.

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