I used raco --exe to create a Windows executable last summer that launched a local webserver, opened the browser, and served content locally. There was a little confusion on my part regarding where things were, but it isn't hard/there shouldn't be any show-stoppers.
Cheers, Matt On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, John Clements <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:16 AM, manu d wrote: > > Hello > > I got my web-based Racket tutorial off the ground. > > You can find it here: https://github.com/voila/try-racket > > It's still rough around the edges, but it is now possible to go through > the tutorial 'Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures'. > > Note that there's a few things missing from the original tutorial: > > - in the 'Lists' section, I omitted this snippet: (list (circle 10) > (square 10)) > At the moment, I can only display single images. > > I've also omitted the section on objects, as it uses Racket’s GUI. Maybe > someone can come up with some alternative content for this section. > > Help, suggestions and bug reports, welcome ! > > > I TOTALLY LOVE this project. > > First: I'd really like to use this as a supporting or primary resource in > my intro-to-programming class this fall. > > Second: have you thought at all about how hard it would be to bundle this > as an executable runnable on, say, Windows? I know it seems really perverse > to create a web-based service and then run it all client-side, but it looks > to me like this might be the easiest path to distributing the workload. My > recollection is that in the past, it's been hard for Windows users to run > apps that serve web pages locally, but perhaps things are easier now. > > Thanks again for this work: I can't wait to see how it develops! > > John > > > > Thanks > > Manu > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >
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