Regarding collections and racket versions...

[infodeveloperdon]

All of my programming code is in a single collection: ~/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects/

even when I have installed newer versions of Racket.

The 'raco setup' function updated all my program bytecodes throughout my system.

I do go through some confusion regarding collections when I install a newer version of racket because I believe it makes use of a newer default collection and if I remember correctly, I make a change somewhere so that the system looks to my original collection location instead.

I appreciate any comments or advice regarding collections in general, or my use of the single collection directory: ~/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects/

:)

[George Neuner]

On 11/2/2020 1:08 PM, infodeveloperdon wrote:
> All of my programming code is in a single collection:
> ~/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects/
> even when I have installed newer versions of Racket.

>    :

> I appreciate any comments or advice regarding collections in general,
> or my use of the single collection directory:
> ~/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects/

You should not be doing active development in the collection directories
... they are meant for *stable* libraries and packages that you want to
be always available in Racket.


Just as a general rule, you ought not to be working under any directory
whose name starts with a period.

It is a Unix convention that a file or directory whose name starts with
a period is private space belonging to some application (which in Unix /
Linux includes the shell itself).   The convention also holds that these
objects should not be shown normally in file listings.  However, if you
specify the "-a" option to "ls"  (or have a shell alias that does so),
you will see these "hidden" files and directories in your listings. 
["-a" means "all"]


You should set up another directory hierarchy for everyday work.  If /
When something is stable and you want it to be available in Racket all
the time, only then should you install it into the collection.

George

[infodeveloperdon]

Thanks George.

Don