[racket-dev] planet-version follies with old planet packages

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Tue May 17 02:17:09 EDT 2011

On May 16, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:

> 011/5/17 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>:
>> Oh, okay I'm caught up now and, as far as I can tell, the gzip.plt
>> package needs to be updated. It has this:
>> 
>>  (define required-core-version "400.0")
>> 
>> in the info.ss file:
>> 
>>  http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/soegaard/gzip.plt/2/0/info.ss
>> 
>> and I think that needs to be this instead:
>>  (define required-core-version "4.0")
> 
> I picked at random one of my other packages "digest", and in its info.ss
> is says:
> 
> (define required-core-version "369.8")
> 
> And that seems to work fine:
> 
> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.0.99.6--2011-01-12(99d1cda/a) [3m].
> Language: racket; memory limit: 256 MB.
>> (require (planet "digest.ss" ("soegaard" "digest.plt" 1 2)))
>> (bytes->hex-string (md5-bytes #"abc"))
> "900150983cd24fb0d6963f7d28e17f72"
> 
> So I am a little confused.
> 
> Is it only the 4xx series, that where the form "400.0" doesn't work?
> 
>> I just grepped thru the source and, unless someone stuck a newline in
>> the required-core-version spec, this is the only package on planet
>> that has this problem.
>> 
>> Jens Axel: do you have time to upload a version (2 1) of the gzip
>> package that updates the required-core-version field? (I hope that's
>> all that's needed?)
> 
> I'll put it on my todo.

Do you want me to create the bundle for you? 

John Clements

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