Ah, that's cool. Looking forward to it! And the in-url thing would be useful indeed for gists for example.
Laurent On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > Yes, I really want to try and get to look into doing this. The thing > is that multi-collection libraries are going to be a common case for > plt packages (which will get pulled out from the main repository), but > the single-collection ones are going to be the much more popular case > elsewhere. > > (And I also still dream on doing some `url-in' to require a single > file, since that's also an important mode of quick sharing. But > that's another story.) > > > 10 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: > > The Racket package system doesn't support packages that aren't > > collection roots. Eli has said that he wants to implement such a > > feature, but it is not available today. > > > > Jay > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Laurent <laurent.ors...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm willing to upgrade my packages for the new PLaneT system, but one > thing > > > that pushes me back is the fact that I need to create a directory for > my > > > package and a subdirectory for the collection(s). > > > > > > But most of my packages are (and will probably be) single-collection > > > packages, and it hurts my logic to have to modify my directory tree > for that > > > purpose. > > > > > > I know there have been several discussions already about this, but > perhaps > > > there is a simple fix: > > > Maybe there could be a `single-collection?' entry in the info.rkt file > > > which, when true, would tell `raco pkg install' to create itself a > directory > > > for the package that has the same name as the collection it contains? > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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