How to edit the htdp package from a release?

Ben Greenman

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Oct 12, 2016, 11:34:28 AM10/12/16

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I've installed Racket 6.6 from download.racket-lang.org and I'd like to submit a change to the HTDP repo.

(This question is not really specific to HTDP, anyway)

Before I submit the edit, I want to test the change on my machine, so I figure I'll make a clone of the htdp package:

$ raco pkg update --clone htdp

But this gives me an error:

Inferred package name from given `--clone' path
package: htdp
given path: htdp
Inferred package scope: installation
raco pkg update: package is not currently installed from a repository
package: htdp
current installation: (catalog htdp)

Is it possible for my install of Racket 6.6 to use a cloned version of htdp?

John Clements

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Oct 12, 2016, 11:43:40 AM10/12/16

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Should this be

raco pkg install —clone htdp

instead?

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John Clements

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Oct 12, 2016, 11:45:20 AM10/12/16

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> On Oct 12, 2016, at 8:43 AM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users <racket...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Ben Greenman <benjamin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've installed Racket 6.6 from download.racket-lang.org and I'd like to submit a change to the HTDP repo.
>>
>> (This question is not really specific to HTDP, anyway)
>>
>> Before I submit the edit, I want to test the change on my machine, so I figure I'll make a clone of the htdp package:
>>
>> $ raco pkg update --clone htdp
>>
>> But this gives me an error:
>> Inferred package name from given `--clone' path
>> package: htdp
>> given path: htdp
>> Inferred package scope: installation
>> raco pkg update: package is not currently installed from a repository
>> package: htdp
>> current installation: (catalog htdp)
>>
>> Is it possible for my install of Racket 6.6 to use a cloned version of htdp?
>
> Should this be
>
> raco pkg install —clone htdp
>
> instead?

Ohh…. I see. From a release! Sorry, I’m a bit slow. I’m guessing you could manually remove the package, though there might be dependencies on it.

John

Matthew Flatt

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Oct 12, 2016, 12:01:44 PM10/12/16

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Yes, but since "htdp" starts out installed from a catalog that provides
a built "htdp" package instead of the Git package source, you have to
also specify the Git source.

Although you can do that with

$ raco pkg update --clone htdp "https://github.com/racket/htdp.git?path=htdp"

I bet you actually want to modify "htdp-lib" or "htdp-doc"... and then
I see that you're going to get to a dependency mismatch with
"string-constants".

In this case, things will work better if you use

$ bin/raco pkg update --catalog https://pkgs.racket-lang.org htdp

to switch to the development version of the package, so you get needed
updates for other packages (also from the catalog). The catalog
provides a Git path, so then

$ raco pkg update --clone htdp

will do what you expected.

Really, I guess you want to use a catalog that has Git paths but also
checksums at the time of the v6.6 release, as opposed to using the
post-6.6 development branch. I don't think we currently have catalogs
like that, though.

Ben Greenman

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Oct 12, 2016, 12:03:46 PM10/12/16

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yes yes yes

Thank you!

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Alex Harsanyi

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Oct 13, 2016, 7:47:15 PM10/13/16

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On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 12:01:44 AM UTC+8, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> In this case, things will work better if you use
>
> $ bin/raco pkg update --catalog https://pkgs.racket-lang.org htdp

I tried to run this command (as I also would like to work on some built in packages), and after it run successfully, my racket installation seems broken. Running raco without any arguments gives out warnings:

warning: tool "contract-profile" registered twice: "contract-profile" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\contract-profile>
warning: tool "dependencies-graph" registered twice: "dependencies-graph" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\drracket-tool-lib\drracket>
warning: tool "docs" registered twice: "docs" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\racket-doc\help>
warning: tool "check-requires" registered twice: "check-requires" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\macro-debugger-text-lib\macro-debugger>
warning: tool "show-dependencies" registered twice: "show-dependencies" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\macro-debugger-text-lib\macro-debugger>
warning: tool "macro-profiler" registered twice: "macro-profiler" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\macro-debugger-text-lib\macro-debugger>
warning: tool "planet" registered twice: "planet" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\planet-lib\planet>
warning: tool "profile" registered twice: "profile" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\profile-lib>
warning: tool "scribble" registered twice: "scribble" and #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\scribble-lib\scribble>

and trying to run DrRacket also fails with errors about duplicate languages.

I'm using Racket 6.6 (released version), no extra packages installed on a Windows 7 64 bit OS.