Racket Homebrew Formula

[Vincent St-Amour]

All,

I've been noticing a number of people reporting issues related to the
`minimal-racket` Homebrew formula, for Mac OS.

In particular, package installation seems at least partially broken.
The larger issue, though, is that, as far as I can tell, this formula
is not actively maintained.

Fortunately for Racketeers who like to use Homebrew, there also exists a
"cask" (pre-built package) for Racket, built using the installers
produced by the Racket team. To the best of my knowledge, this version
works fine.

So my question to Racket-via-Homebrew users is: is the cask sufficient
for your purposes? If so, I'll ask the Homebrew maintainers to remove
the broken `minimal-racket` formula. If not, and you would be interested
in taking over its maintenance, I can add you keep you in the loop
regarding Racket releases.

Please let me know what you think.

Vincent

[Philip McGrath]

Since no one else has answered, I'll jump in as a Racketeer using Homebrew. 

I currently use the "cask" of Racket, but I did formerly use the "minimal-racket" package. I had no need for the minimalism, but one thing I liked about it is that (IIRC) it set the console-bin for Racket launchers to something consistent across releases (maybe /usr/local ?). 

With the cask version, Homebrew symlinks racket, raco, etc into /usr/local, but command-line tools added by packages go into /Applications/Racket v6.9/bin, which means I still have to remember to edit my PATH when I install a new version of Racket. (Or perhaps there's some environment variable I don't know about to set such things?)

In an ideal world, I'd really like Homebrew to manage configuring my PATH, migrating installed packages, etc. automatically. (Perhaps something closer to the "Unix-style" option from the Linux/Unix installer script.) Of course, in practice I'm only reminded of this every few months when upgrade time comes, vaguely think I should figure out a better solution, and then forget about it …

-Philip

Vincent

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