[racket] write permissions on AppData planet cache in 6.0

From: Robby Findler (robby at racket-lang.org)
Date: Thu Mar 13 22:25:54 EDT 2014

I believe that is a directory that Racket is assuming it can write to. Do
you know why write access has been disabled to it?

Robby


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Kathi Fisler <kfisler at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:

> I'm trying to upgrade to v6.0 (32 bit) on Vista.  Installation goes fine,
> but when I open a long-standing file that loads some planet packages and
> uses a local collection, I get
>
> make-directory: forbidden (write) access to
> C:\Users\kfisler\AppData\Roaming\Racket\planet\300\6.0\
>
> (I created that directory manually, then got the same error for 6.0\cache).
>
> Suggestions?  Installation proceeded normally afaik.  My code is still
> using requires into the planet/package system for 5.3.6, in case that's
> part of the problem.
>
> thanks,
> Kathi
>
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