[plt-scheme] Another PLaneT Question

From: Doug Williams (m.douglas.williams at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 2 18:24:50 EDT 2010

I updated the meta-data, which let me change most things. There doesn't seem
to be any way to set the external version (which would be the same as the
PLaneT version in this case) or the docs fields, but it's no biggie,

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jacob Matthews <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
> > This message tickled a memory, and sure enough, it looks like
> > get-info/full in collects/setup/getinfo.ss (which planet uses to find
> > a package's info file) looks for a file literally named "info.ss". I'd
> > guess that's the issue.
>
> Ah. This is due to the planet server running an ancient version of
> plt. Well, the proper fix is more than I can really do right now (ie
> bringing planet up to running v5.0 of plt) so I have just hacked the
> code in the planet installation and I'll look into doing this fix
> properly when I return.
>
> Thanks, Jacob!
>
> BTW, this means that newly uploaded packages should work properly, but
> the Doug's package will have the wrong information since it just used
> various defaults (since the code incorrectly assumed that the info
> file didn't exist at all). You should be able to update the
> information about the planet package tho.
>
> Robby
>
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