[racket] Pkg install error

From: Greg Hendershott (greghendershott at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 8 09:56:58 EDT 2013

On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (using this morning's racket build)
>> I've just uploaded a package to pkg, but when I try to install it for
>> testing I get the following error:
>>
>> % raco pkg install script-plugin
>> Resolving "script-plugin" via https://pkg.racket-lang.org
>> Downloading https://github.com/Metaxal/script-plugin/tarball/
>
> GitHub.com responds 404 not found for that URL, which may account for
> the unexpected EOF:
>
>> =: contract violation
>>   expected: number?
>>   given: #<eof>
>>   argument position: 1st
>>   other arguments...:
>>    31
>>
>> However, when I install it directly from github, with the exact same source,
>> it works:
>>
>> % raco pkg install github://github.com/Metaxal/script-plugin/v2.18/
>> Querying GitHub branches
>> Querying GitHub tags
>> Downloading
>> https://github.com/Metaxal/script-plugin/tarball/d1691f01bbe3b72f4b79aef40b6a3db9f0ce061e
>
> Whereas that URL seems valid. (At least, the browser offers to
> download a file when I click it.)
>
>
> Let me try downloading some older package as an experiment. To find
> one, let me visit https://pkg.racket-lang.org/search. Unfortunately
> this morning it's not responding. Although I'm not getting a
> connection timeout error yet (well over 60 seconds) the circle is
> still spinning in the browser.

... and literally 10 seconds after I sent that email, it finished
responding and seems to be working fine.

Maybe it was getting updated to fix your issue, when I tried?

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