[racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

30 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 
>     > One other thing that I think is important in a migration path is
>     > keeping any modification made to the source of the packages that are
>     > already installed.
>    
>     Yeah -- and IIUC, the difference between the two installations is
>     where the packages get installed is where the compiled files are, so
>     the sources are the same.  At least I *hope* that that's how it is,
>     otherwise it's back to the whole planet "cache" things, which IMO was
>     a major mistake.
> 
> They are in the same place. However, I thought the whole premise of
> this proposed behavior is that the package won't work in the new
> version of Racket, so certainly the package system can't be
> responsible for doing a merge your local changes and whatever the
> updated version of the package needs.

I'm not following that -- the compiled files and the sources are in
the same place?  If so then it makes the whole migration thing kind of
impossible with local changes, no?  (And I wasn't thinking about
merging, just reusing the same sources.)

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