[racket-users] How to work on a package from a released version of Racket?

2017-04-06 Thread Alex Harsanyi
Hello, I'm trying to make some changes to the built-in plot package and I'm following the instructions from this thread to get a local git clone of the package: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/eP6QLUD8DlA/tQbRDlCQEwAJ My platform is Windows with Racket 6.8 64 bit installed. I'

[racket-users] GitHub API package?

2017-04-06 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
It looks like pkgn.racket-lang.org has two different GitHub API repos, and neither of them has been updated since 2015. One is Sam’s, one is from a fellow named Stefan. In addition, it looks like Tony forked Sam’s repo. Can any of you comment on which of these is the most likely to be working to

Re: [racket-users] Racket with UWP

2017-04-06 Thread Scott Gudeman
Unfortunately that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid as while that will work just fine for desktop windows as I can separate the processes easily enough there and just have them talk via any of the many protocols(you guys mentioned) for conversing between 2 separate binary's on the same system

Re: [racket-users] Racket with UWP

2017-04-06 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Agreed. If you have rock-solid Google's Protocol Buffers implementations on both ends, their schema formalism works for you, and you don't mind the protocol being harder for a programmer to eyeball in most tools than sexp/JSON, then (the unfortunately-named :) Protocol Buffers is a great optio

Re: [racket-users] Racket with UWP

2017-04-06 Thread David Storrs
I've had very good success with Google's protocol buffers standards in Racket: https://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=protobuf.plt&owner=murphy&changerep=2 http://voidstarzero.ca/post/137911090363/getting-started-with-protocol-buffers-in-racket https://developers.google.com/protocol-buf

Re: [racket-users] Racket with UWP

2017-04-06 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I don't know about Microsoft UWP specifically, but, FWIW, there is a long tradition, in various platforms, of partitioning into two or more host OS processes, and doing some kind of interprocess communication (IPC) between them. The IPC can be over domain sockets, shared memory, stdio/TTY, TCP

[racket-users] Racket with UWP

2017-04-06 Thread Scott Gudeman
Has anyone tried/started getting racket up and running as the back end embedded into a universal windows platform app? Aka using xaml to layout the gui and using racket for all the thinking bits -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group.