Distributing raco command without `raco`

[Sage Gerard]

If I release a package `foo` and want to distribute a command with it, I can make it into a raco command where users have to keep typing `raco foo-command`, etc.

Javascript and Python ecosystems let me write a package such that I can install `foo` and the users can just run `foo-command`.

Is there a way to do the same in Racket without building an executable and dropping it into someone's PATH?

[Philip McGrath]

In your "info.rkt", define `racket-launcher-names` and `racket-launcher-libraries`, or `gracket-launcher-names` and `gracket-launcher-libraries` for a GUI app: https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/setup-info.html#(idx._(gentag._14._(lib._scribblings%2Fraco%2Fraco..scrbl)))

Note that this is handled by `raco setup`, not `raco pkg`, so you can do this in an "info.rkt" file in any collection, not just at the top level directory of the package. Here's an example "info.rkt" file from one of my packages that uses `gracket-launcher-names`: https://bitbucket.org/digitalricoeur/tei-utils/src/master/tei/tools/info.rkt

-Philip

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[Sage Gerard]

Perfect, thank you. I'll put up a PR to add that as a margin note in https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/command.html



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