On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Anthony Carrico <acarr...@memebeam.org> wrote: > On 06/19/2015 11:19 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote: >> With this release we are taking a major step forward to get our user >> community even more involved than in the past... > > It looks like I'm running currently running a snapshot. I've ran from > github before, but I'll admit I'm not sure where I'd go to understand > how to build from the multiple github repos. If instructions exist, it > might be time to link to them under the http://racket-lang.org/ contrib. > Hopefully that would include: > > * how to check-out Racket and whatever other repos, > * build out-of-tree, > * run racket, > * sync, > * build again.
Here's what I do for building from git, and I think it's the simplest thing: $ git clone https://github.com/plt/racket $ cd racket $ make This clones a single (small) repository and then builds everything. It will automatically install the latest version of whatever other packages you need without actually cloning any of the other repositories. This means that you have a pretty minimal connection to git. When you need to update again, you can just update racket and then do another "make" and it will download the updates for the packages too. Now, sometimes you will actually want to have the git repos of other packages. That's easy too. Since I work on the Web server, here's what I did: # Create a helpful directory. There's nothing special about this name, but I like it $ mkdir extra-pkgs $ cd extra-pkgs # Tell racket to switch the web-server package from being a tar-ball install to being a git clone $ raco pkg update --clone web-server Now I'm good to go to $ cd web-server $ ed web-server-lib/web-server/main.rkt and so forth. Something that is neat about the new world is that it is easy to have a released version of Racket downloaded from the site, but have a git clone of some small set of other package repos that you are doing development on. The only difference will be the first three steps. I hope this helps, <3 Jay -- Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
