Helping a Bootstrap partner get raco curr working on Windows 10

[Kathi Fisler]

I know this isn't strictly a dev issue, but I figure this list has the people who might know how to address this question.

Mario (CCed) is a professor at the University of Denver who is working with the Bootstrap team, adding notes into our scribble-based infrastructure.

He is having problems running raco link to set up our scribble packages.  He's on Windows 10.  The error report I got last night is at the bottom of this message.

The Racket-saavy Brown students haven't been able to figure out what's going on.  Nobody else here has experience with Windows.  Can anyone else help us figure out the problem?

If I understand correctly, he was able to run raco-link on an earlier version of our repo (some months ago), but it is now failing.  I can't think of any unusual changes we made (just pushing and pulling racket and scribble source files) since then.

thanks,

Kathi

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This didn’t work either. This is what I did:

1)      First removed the package with raco link –r curr

2)      Updated the package with the Install Package option of the Package Manager of DrRacket

 

Then I tried:

3)      Linking the package with raco link c:\Bootstrap\curr

4)      Same as step 2 above

 

Both attempts resulted in the following error message:

DrRacket update: cannot update linked packages;

except with a replacement package source

  package name: curr

  package source: c:\Bootstrap\curr\

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[Matthew Flatt]

The package system via works at a layer above `raco link`, so when you
use `raco link` directly, you can create a situation that makes no
sense to the package manager. For example, `raco link -r` can remove a
link that the package manager thinks is still installed.

So, don't use `raco link`. Instead, use `raco pkg`, which is happy to
link a local directory as a package when you supply `raco pkg install`
with a directory argument (i.e., something with a slash in it). Using
the package manager in DrRacket is the same as using `raco pkg`.

I'm not sure what state Mario's installation is in, but maybe it will
work to uninstall the package, either through DrRacket or `raco pkg
remove`, and then (without using `raco link` again) install the package
afresh. "Installing" can mean selecting the directory to link the
directory as an installed package; there's a "Browse" button in
DrRacket's package-manager window that lets you pick a directory.

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