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provide usage example

Open mschwaig opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

I think it would be nice if the project came with a runable usage example. I'm imagining a source file and/or command invocation for actually producing some rendered output, assuming the dependencies are set up correctly.

Did blackboard produce the example.svg linked in the README?


The rest of this issue is an explanation for why I'm asking this, especially since I don't know anything about racket or font rendering.

I saw you complain on twitter that you project has a number of difficult to deal with dependencies. I have used nix flakes a number of times for packaging software that is very picky about dependencies. Sadly that does not mean that I can actually solve those problems in practice, because that kind of thing quickly turns into a time-sink.

Still I was interested, so I spent about an hour on this to go through the first steps of trying to package this as a flake and at document the many loose ends, based on your README.md. I don't have specific plans to actually finish this but I thought I'd still share my initial attempt. You can find my code here if you are interested: https://github.com/mschwaig/blackboard/blob/add-flake-based-build/flake.nix

Feel free to close/ignore this issue as you see fit. Thanks and be well!

mschwaig avatar Mar 25 '22 14:03 mschwaig