[Larceny-users] finding libraries

[Marco Maggi]

"William D Clinger" wrote:
>Marco Moggie wrote:
(I am not a cat :-)

> You could, for example, edit the
> startup.sch file documented in sections
> 3.2.4 of Larceny's User Manual.  If you
> prefer to use an environment variable,
> then you could edit the shell scripts
> provided with Larceny.

All of this is possible, but not easy;
I do not want to learn how to hack scripts,
and hack them again after each upgrade. I
will roll my own script, but I am still
convinced that making it simple with an
env-var would be a good service to the
users.

> You can put (uriel lang) in either of
>
>     <dir-in-path>/uriel/lang.sls
> or  <dir-in-path>/uriel.sls
>
> Similarly, you can put (uriel lang compat) in
>
>     <dir-in-path>/uriel/lang/compat.sls
> or  <dir-in-path>/uriel/lang.sls
> or  <dir-in-path>/uriel.sls

Yes. I will experiment with this, and probably
adopt this convention.

> v0.97 is also expected to allow
>
>    <dir-in-path>/uriel/lang/compat.larceny.sls

Fine!
-- 
Marco Maggi

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