Hello again, I was able to resolve my problem. First I renamed the frtime collection in the install path. This resulted in racket complaining that the collection couldn't be found. Next, I linked to the collection within the frtime source directory.
raco link path/to/github/repo/directory Following linking to this location, the language declaration resolved to the frtime language within my github tree. Thanks all, -Patrick On 24 July 2012 18:52, Patrick Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I forked the github Racket repo, and created a new branch in order to > update Frtime from the scheme or mzscheme #langs to Racket. This has been > progressing well, until I ran into a small issue that I think likely > affects most individuals working on Racket source for which collections > exist in the collection paths. > > (module animation frtime > ... > > > -Despite making changes to the frtime language, excising the scheme and > mzscheme languages within the source that was checked out, it became > apparent that this declaration and others referring to collections were > relying on the imports defined from the mzscheme lang. After running Check > Syntax, right-clicking on the lang declaration, and opening the files all > the way down to a file where changes had been made (say lang-utils.rkt), > the unedited source was visible. This source showing (sans my edits) was > that found within the C:/Program Files/Racket/collects/frtime directory, > rather than my github racket source directory. > > How does one go about unregistering a collection such that all references > to that collection subsequently look not into the collections directory, > but compile and run the files from within your checked out source? I guess > this question could likely could be generalized to, "How do Racket > developers make edits to source files backing collections and run them > without references to collections referring to the pre-compiled > collections, or those in the Racket installation?". I am interested in how > to resolve this problem, and I apologize that I don't yet know the language > well enough to formulate the problem in the correct terms. > > Can anyone provide some guidance here? > > For anyone interested in the branch itself, find it at: > https://github.com/paddymahoney/racket/commits/frtime-update > > Thank you all! > -Patrick > > >
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