Sounds like something we need a chapter on this stuff. Carl? Ryan? --
Matthias
Begin forwarded message:
From: Robby Findler <[email protected]>
Date: February 18, 2009 8:15:10 AM EST
To: Filipe Cabecinhas <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] How to add a new language to DrScheme?
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Filipe Cabecinhas
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to add a new language to DrScheme. I've already
implemented
main.ss, lang/reader.ss and info.ss. (so require, #lang and
DrScheme all
work). But I don't have my module directory inside collects, so
DrScheme
won't see it (module... see it because I added it to that language's
collects). How can I add this directory to DrScheme? Must I change an
environment variable or can I do it by changing one or two files or
configuring DrScheme for that?
The way we used to do that was to distribute a .plt file. Nowadays, we
recommend using planet for that, but you'd have to issue a command to
download it after drscheme is installed.
Also, I want to distribute DrScheme with this language to some
students
for testing. Is there a way to create a minimized installer with only
scheme, DrScheme, debug tools and my language? Mind that my language
needs to use MysterX, so I need to run the scripts to register the
dlls.
And they're architecture students, so I can't just tell them to run
regsrv32 mysterx.dll :-)
If you go the planet route, then telling them to (require (planet
...)) would also trigger running whatever code you'd want, and I
expect that code can go register the dlls? Unless DrScheme can't be
running at the time you do that, in which case you'd have to tell them
to run the command 'planet install ...', but is that beyond them?
If you go the .plt route, the same thing applies; you can create a
.plt that runs some code when it is installed to set up the
environment.
Robby
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