[racket] Live coding with Racket?

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Fri May 30 17:05:47 EDT 2014

On May 30, 2014, at 11:54 AM, George Rudolph <rudolphg1 at citadel.edu> wrote:

> Well, there is no "collects" subdirectory under fluxus,
> and I've tried absolute paths. I have fluxus installed
> under "program files" as indicated in the fluxus manual.
> 
> Obviously, something is not correct with the path.
> I was hoping someone would know what the correct path is.
> 
> the package manager installed something, but gave errors when it 
> ran as well.

Wait… you installed it using the package manager? I don’t see fluxus in the package manager or on PLaneT.

John

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clements [mailto:clements at brinckerhoff.org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:49 PM
> To: George Rudolph
> Cc: Asumu Takikawa; users at racket-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [racket] Live coding with Racket?
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2014, at 6:00 AM, George Rudolph <rudolphg1 at citadel.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Here's my code:
>> ----------------------------
>> #lang racket
>> (require fluxus-017/drflux)
>> 
>> (build-cube)
>> 
>> ------------------------
>> Here's the error
>> unsaved editor:2:9: collection not found for module path: 
>> fluxus-017/drflux collection: "fluxus-017....0.1\collects C:\Program 
>> Files\Racket\collects ... [151 additional linked and package 
>> directories]
>> #(23 17)
>> 
>> The fluxus documentation on its website was written back when DrRacket 
>> was DrScheme, so I know a few details have changed since then.
>> So I guess my next question is how to make fluxus work with DrRacket, 
>> or is there something "better"?
> 
> I don't know about the current state of fluxus, but I'm suspicious about your collections path, in which it appears that fluxus is not preceded by a C:\...". This doesn't seem like a good idea, and it sounds like the fix might be to make your collections path consist of absolute paths.
> 
> John
> 



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