<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div>Neil,</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> Out of curiosity, what kind of application have you developed for your client? Did you have to justify your use of Racket? Why did you choose Racket?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Steve<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423161690362_16905"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423161690362_16833" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423161690362_16832" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423161690362_16831" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423161690362_16904" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423161690362_16903" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Neil Van Dyke <neil@neilvandyke.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>; users <users@racket-lang.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 4, 2015 4:34 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [racket] Racket on Centos?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I always build it to put all of Racket into a single directory tree, by <br clear="none">adding an argument like `--prefix=/usr/local/racket-6.1.1` when I do the <br clear="none">"./configure" part of the build.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">One of my clients simply copies one of these install trees around to <br clear="none">many servers (running the same GNU/Linux distro version), and that's <br clear="none">worked perfectly for years.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you do it this way, there's not much else to do (if the target <br clear="none">machine otherwise has the shared libraries on which Racket depends but <br clear="none">does not include).<br clear="none">On servers, I just have the application-specific stuff set an <br clear="none">application-specific environment variable for the path to Racket version <br clear="none">install to use, and everything else about the app uses that variable. <br clear="none">(This is also used when running the app on a workstation.)<br clear="none">On your workstation, for convenience on command lines that you type <br clear="none">manually, you can add the path to the desired Racket installation, to <br clear="none">your shell's `PATH` or `path` environment variable, but I suggest *not* <br clear="none">doing that on server.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Neil V.<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt0026679815" id="yqtfd97767"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">____________________<br clear="none"> Racket Users list:<br clear="none"> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>