[racket-dev] okay to add planet error check?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 15 15:58:45 EST 2011

That sounds right to me.

Robby

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I have a "make unlink" target in my Planet-development Makefile that
> removes all the development links I commonly use.  I use it to start
> fresh, when some or all of the links are installed.  I would rather
> keep the ability to use it regardless of the current set of installed
> links, than have it fail partway through.
>
> On the other hand, I don't need this behavior to be the default.  If
> you want to make raco signal an error by default, and add a --quiet or
> --force option to restore the current behavior, that would be fine by
> me.
>
> Carl Eastlund
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, John Clements
> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>> Currently, raco planet does not signal an error on the removal of a nonexistent link:
>>
>> pcp070580pcs:~/sxml clements$ raco planet unlink frooty bogus.plt 3 4
>> pcp070580pcs:~/sxml clements$
>>
>> Anyone mind if I change the code to signal an error in this case?
>>
>> John Clements
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