racket/collects/scribblings/setup-plt/info.scrbl

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#lang scribble/doc
@(require scribble/manual
(for-label scheme
string-constants
setup/getinfo))
@title[#:tag "info.ss"]{@filepath{info.ss} File Format}
@defmodulelang[setup/infotab]
In each collection, a special module file @filepath{info.ss} provides
general information about a collection for use by various tools. For
example, an @filepath{info.ss} file specifies how to build the
documentation for a collection, and it lists plug-in tools for
DrScheme that the collection provides.
Although an @filepath{info.ss} file contains a module declaration, the
declaration has a highly constrained form. It must match the following
grammar of @scheme[_info-module]:
@schemegrammar*[
#:literals (info lib setup/infotab quote quasiquote
cons car cdr list list* reverse append
string-append path->string build-path
collection-path
system-library-subpath
string-constant)
[info-module (module info intotab-mod-path
(define id info-expr)
...)]
[intotab-mod-path (lib "infotab.ss" "setup")
setup/infotab]
[info-expr (quote datum)
(quasiquote datum)
(info-primitive info-expr ...)
id
string
number
boolean
(string-constant identifier)]
[info-primitive cons car cdr list
list* reverse append
string-append
path->string build-path collection-path
system-library-subpath]
]
For example, the following declaration could be the @filepath{info.ss}
library of the @filepath{help} collection. It contains definitions for
three info tags, @scheme[name], @scheme[mzscheme-launcher-libraries], and
@scheme[mzscheme-launcher-names].
@schememod[
setup/infotab
(define name "Help")
(define mzscheme-launcher-libraries '("help.ss"))
(define mzscheme-launcher-names '("PLT Help"))
]
As illustrated in this example, an @filepath{info.ss} file can use
@hash-lang[] notation, but only with the @schememodname[setup/infotab]
language.
@;{
The @scheme[name] tag is required for @exec{setup-plt} to recognize
the collection and compile its files to bytecode. Similarly, an
@filepath{info.ss} file in a sub-directory of a collection causes the
sub-directory's files to be compiled.
;}
See also @scheme[get-info] from @schememodname[setup/getinfo].