Re: Distribution of MrEd-based apps

[David Jaquay <djaquay@dejazzd.com>]

Sounds like good things are in the works, and I seriously doubt that I'll 
have much working before summer.  Still, if I felt like just packing up my 
source and sending it to someone to play with, what else would I need to 
send them, or tell them to download, before they could run my app?

Thanks,
Dave

At 10:40 PM 12/22/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, there is not yet a very good mechanism for building standalone 
>applications with the PLT tools. Hopefully the situation will improve with 
>the release of 104, sometime in the summer.
>
>Until then, read up on launchers (small executables files that basically 
>contain canned command-line arugment for either mred or mzscheme) or, if 
>you need more and are adventerous, read the mzc manual.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Robby
>
>[ apologies if you receive this twice -- the first time my mailer crashed. 
>I should use sirmail more... ]
>
>At 11:12 AM -0500 12/22/00, David Jaquay wrote:
>>I'm thinking of a couple of programs that I'd like to write, one small, 
>>one large (eventually).  I'm wondering how to go about putting together a 
>>download package that will include just what each application actually 
>>needs.  I'd assume for a graphical app, I'd need MrEd.exe, but what else?
>>
>>I see games.exe at 44k, and assume that it references MrEd.exe, and a 
>>directory under collects that would be included.  How does one create an 
>>exe of that type, and what does that buy you?  Do you need all of 
>>collects, or is it feasible to pick and choose based on what you 
>>use?  (In case it matters, I'll hopefully be targeting all supported 
>>O/S's, not just Windows, although I won't have access to a Mac...)
>>
>>I'm guessing that releasing a small package to folks that don't actually 
>>have MrEd already installed won't be worth the effort, i.e. if I need to 
>>send the whole MrEd.exe, I'd be better off compiling an executable (i.e. 
>>in C/C++), which will only contain what it needs, and be a quick 
>>download.  (The small app I have in mind would be Windows-only.)
>>
>>OTOH, the larger app would most likely use most MrEd functionality and 
>>would be worth the download time.  I'd imagine I would put together a 
>>source package (that would change per release) and a base package 
>>(containing MrEd.exe and other needed support items) that could just be 
>>downloaded once.
>>
>>Any light that folks can shine on this would be appreciated greatly. I'm 
>>quite a Lisp/Scheme newbie, having only written a few Elisp macros, but 
>>the more I use it, the more I love the language, and would love to do 
>>something meaty in it.  Still, I'm climbing the learning curve...
>>
>>Thanks in advance for the assistance, (and Merry Christmas),
>>Dave
>>
>>P.S.  Didn't I see somewhere a list of apps written in DrScheme? All of a 
>>sudden, I can't find it any more.