Re: [racket-users] racket-launcher-names and easing the user experience

[Matthew Flatt]

The path for executables in user-scope installation is always like
that. As far as I know, think there's not a great answer for where to
put user-scope executables, especially across platforms.

One more option to consider: add a `raco` command. That avoids the PATH
issue by changing the PATH search into a raco-tool search as controlled
by "info.rkt" files.

At Mon, 1 Mar 2021 10:52:42 +, Laurent wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to share a program with non-racketeers, as a package/collection
> named myprog (say), and I want to make it as simple as possible for the
> user.
> 
> [The Racket Installation instructions need some work by the way, it's not
> very user friendly on linux. It could at least say that `[sudo] apt install
> racket` should work on debian/ubuntu (thanks Asumu!), but also say to
> otherwise download the .sh and run it with `$ sh racket-...sh`]
> 
> My first idea was to have the user run:
> $ racket -l- myprog args ...
> 
> but I'm told `racket-launcher-names
>  x._%28gentag._18._%28lib._scribblings%2Fraco%2Fraco..scrbl%29%29%29>`
> may make it even simpler as the user could invoke
> $ myprog args ...
> 
> which is neat. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be so straightforward due
> to PATH issues:
> I installed a snapshot/nightly as a unix distribution (as I always do), and
> the myprog launcher is successfully created at
> /home//.racket/snapshot/bin/myprog
> but this isn't in my PATH, so it can't be found and the 'neat'
> invocation above doesn't work.
> 
> Questions:
> * Is this specific to my weird snapshot+Unix-style installation?
> * Can I expect this to work trouble-free on Windows, Mac, Linux (at least
> debian/ubuntu) when installing a release the way a new user would do?
> 
> If it requires any work by the user to make it work, it seems that asking
> to do
> $ racket -l- myprog
> is simpler.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurent
> 
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[racket-users] racket-launcher-names and easing the user experience

[Laurent]

Hi all,

I want to share a program with non-racketeers, as a package/collection
named myprog (say), and I want to make it as simple as possible for the
user.

[The Racket Installation instructions need some work by the way, it's not
very user friendly on linux. It could at least say that `[sudo] apt install
racket` should work on debian/ubuntu (thanks Asumu!), but also say to
otherwise download the .sh and run it with `$ sh racket-...sh`]

My first idea was to have the user run:
$ racket -l- myprog args ...

but I'm told `racket-launcher-names
`
may make it even simpler as the user could invoke
$ myprog args ...

which is neat. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be so straightforward due
to PATH issues:
I installed a snapshot/nightly as a unix distribution (as I always do), and
the myprog launcher is successfully created at
/home//.racket/snapshot/bin/myprog
but this isn't in my PATH, so it can't be found and the 'neat'
invocation above doesn't work.

Questions:
* Is this specific to my weird snapshot+Unix-style installation?
* Can I expect this to work trouble-free on Windows, Mac, Linux (at least
debian/ubuntu) when installing a release the way a new user would do?

If it requires any work by the user to make it work, it seems that asking
to do
$ racket -l- myprog
is simpler.

Thanks,
Laurent

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