Standalone autograders, autodetecting file names, package, etc about gradescope-racket HOT 6 OPEN

@shriram @wilbowma : Any objections to an MIT license?

@dbp Just FYI: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/khoury-gradescope, https://github.com/northeastern-khoury/gradescope-racket/.

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No objection to MIT license.

FWIW, some of these design decisions don't work in my context. I'm using this package (or my fork of it) in a 4th year course, and students need to submit multiple files, so I can't use a system that searches for files with the right extension.

I'm also using it in a compilers course, and we rely on particular version of external binaries such as nasm and ld, and on the OS, binary format, etc, which are related to the underlying image, so I really need the ability to test to the image.

Maybe I'm an outlier and I can continue to maintain my fork (https://github.com/cpsc411/cpsc411-gradescope), but I'll be less and less able to contribute upstream.

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@wilbowma The former isn't too big of a deal (as I said, having multiple define-var forms should be straightforward).

To the latter -- to some extent, the docker infrastructure always has to be able to be built (it's what Gradescope is going to do), so perhaps there is a way of separating out the parts that are relevant to that (mostly, the Makefile & conventions?) from code that could go on pkgs.racket-lang.org? Since everyone seems to have their own fork anyway, maybe there are just templates (of common patterns of use) & a library?

(With that said, I'm obviously perfectly happy to have a fork, but would prefer to avoid if possible, hence opening this in the first place).

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To the latter -- to some extent, the docker infrastructure always has to be able to be built (it's what Gradescope is going to do), so perhaps there is a way of separating out the parts that are relevant to that (mostly, the Makefile & conventions?) from code that could go on pkgs.racket-lang.org?

That makes sense to me; something similar to raco pkg new could setup a new template directory?

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I'm just fine with an MIT license.

We too have some more complicated uses for our upper-level PL course so I don't want to over-simplify it: I really don't want to fork and maintain that. The more @dbp can make a conservative extension, the better.

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Okay -- I'll work on a minimal pull request, with the aim of avoiding forks.

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