[racket] Strange problem upgrading from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2

From: Greg Hendershott (greghendershott at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 29 15:15:36 EST 2010

Ah, it was here:

 C:\Users\Greg\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files
(x86)\Racket\collects\gui-debugger\compiled\debug-tool_rkt.zo

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> In an effort to solve my Geiser problem on Windows 7, I realized I
> should update to 5.0.2 (from 5.0.0).
>
> I ran the installer for 5.0.02 which did the uninstall of 5.0.0
> followed by the install of 5.0.02.
>
> Now on startup I get:
>
> ---
> Error invoking tool #<path:C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Racket\collects\gui-debugger>;("debug-tool.ss")
>
> collects\gui-debugger\compiled\debug-tool_rkt.zo::0: read (compiled):
> code compiled for version 5.0, not 5.0.2
>
>  === context ===
> standard-module-name-resolver
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Racket\collects\drracket\private\tools.rkt:282:4
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Racket\collects\racket\private\map.rkt:50:17: loop
> C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Racket\collects\drracket\private\tools.rkt:70:0:
> load/invoke-all-tools
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Racket\collects\drracket\tool-lib.rkt: [running body]
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Racket\collects\drracket\drracket.rkt: [running body]
> ---
>
> Here's the thing: I had manually tweaked debug-tool.rkt (to limit the
> amount of text shown for each item in the values pane). IIRC, I had
> run raco to rebuild, and it worked.
>
> So I wasn't totally shocked by this error. I figured the uninstall
> hadn't succeeded. So I did the uninstall, made sure that "Program
> Files (x86)\Racket" was completely gone, and did the install all over
> again.
>
> And ... I'm still getting this error.  Huh??
>
> I checked and the debug-tool.rkt file and the compiled/debug-tool.zo
> and .dep files are all dated 11/ 06/2010. They are not the files I had
> modified back in 5.0.0.
>
> So ... what the heck is going on??
>


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