[plt-dev] Re: Generated files and co-existing copies of DrScheme

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Pardon my pre-morning-coffee thinking.  There were a few mistakes here:
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> 3. IIUC, the only problem that this solves is using several different
>>>   installations with the same version number, is this true?  Is that
>>>   problem *so* common?  If so, then maybe have instead a way to use
>>>   your own additional suffix to the version part that gets used in
>>>   ~/.plt-scheme/<here>/ and ~/.plt-scheme/planet/300/<here>/ ?
>>
>> I run into this problem every single day when I update my PLT trunk
>> checkout.  I either have to spend the duration of a complete build
>> (including all documentation, installed planet packages, and recovery
>> from any build errors) unable to run any PLT Scheme code of any
>> variety -- essentially unable to work -- or I need some way to have
>> two PLT Scheme installations of the same version that don't "share"
>> compiled planet code.
>
> The above describes the problem I run into in general, much of which
> is alleviated by PLTPLANETDIR.  I still have the problem of clashing
> docs, so I can't run Help Desk in the interim and I'm stuck with the
> newest version afterword.  However I am able to run mzscheme,
> drscheme, planet, setup-plt, etc.

Not to be contrarian, but pre-relase docs are probably close enough
usually, right?

Robby