Study the implementation of DrRacket...

[Steve Beisner]

(Posted here because the group description says for those "interested in the implementation of Racket.")

This is probably obvious to experienced Racket programmers... but I'm new to both Racket and

its code base, and studying the DrRocket IDE application looks like it might be good path to mastering

both. (I ultimately want to rewrite an existing GUI-intensive web app in another language as a Racket

desktop application.)

The DrRacket IDE looks like a nice, not-too-complex example of racket GUI programming.

Can someone point me to or provide information on setting up the DrRacket repository 

(https://github.com/racket/drracket) as a DrRacket project for study / modification / building?

• How to get the github repository in my local DrRocket IDE for study / modification?
• How to build?

I'm guessing the answer may be somewhere in the voluminous Racket docs... pointer?

Thanks for your help.

SteveB

[Matthias Felleisen]

Let me recommend that you rebuild Scheme Esq. from our 1999 paper “The Revenge of the Son of the Lisp Machine”.

https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/#icfp99-ffkf

This is a bit outdated and needs an update anyway, but once you get the sense of how to build a mini-drracket, you can point people here to your Github repo and they can suggest improvements.

[Asumu Takikawa also renovated this piece of code recently and we can point you there later.]

[Jens Axel Søgaard]

As an alternative GUI program to study, there is AcitivityLog2:

    https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2

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[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

Here's how to install Racket and have a cloned version of DrRacket
that you can play with:

> git clone git://github.com/racket/racket
> cd racket
> make # this will build racket, install all the standard packages, and compile them
> mkdir extra-pkgs # this directory is listed in .gitignore for this purpose
> cd extra-pkgs
> raco pkg update --clone drracket # clone the drracket repo and point raco pkg at the clone

Sam

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[Steve Beisner]

Trying to run this inside DrRacket (version 6.10.1)

• Downloaded and unzipped the repository from https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2
• Opened  "ActivityLog2-master/rkt/main.rkt" in DrRacket IDE
• Pressed "Run" in toolbar... it starts running.
• After a couple of minutes of running with no output, I get, in red, in the status
  area of the IDE: "Background expansion terminated abnormally (out of memory)"

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

SteveB

On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 10:40:16 AM UTC-5, jensaxel wrote:

As an alternative GUI program to study, there is AcitivityLog2:

    https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2

2017-09-21 17:00 GMT+02:00 Steve Beisner <steveb...@gmail.com>:

(Posted here because the group description says for those "interested in the implementation of Racket.")

This is probably obvious to experienced Racket programmers... but I'm new to both Racket and

its code base, and studying the DrRocket IDE application looks like it might be good path to mastering

both. (I ultimately want to rewrite an existing GUI-intensive web app in another language as a Racket

desktop application.)

The DrRacket IDE looks like a nice, not-too-complex example of racket GUI programming.

Can someone point me to or provide information on setting up the DrRacket repository 

(https://github.com/racket/drracket) as a DrRacket project for study / modification / building?

• How to get the github repository in my local DrRocket IDE for study / modification?
• How to build?

I'm guessing the answer may be somewhere in the voluminous Racket docs... pointer?

Thanks for your help.

SteveB

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[Jens Axel Søgaard]

2017-09-21 18:22 GMT+02:00 Steve Beisner <steveb...@gmail.com>:

• Opened  "ActivityLog2-master/rkt/main.rkt" in DrRacket IDE

Am I doing something wrong?

According to the build instructions:

      https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/blob/master/doc/building.md

you need to use "run.rkt".

/Jens Axel

[Steve Beisner]

Oops... thanks -- that did it.  Thanks for the help.