[racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Who here has tried using `raco link' for development?

I use `raco link` for all of my development -- once `raco link` was
released, I basically gave up on Planet1 and used `raco link` for
everything.

> The default mode is user-specific but not version-specific, and I've
> found that default to be inconvenient. Usually, it turns out, I want an
> installation-specific link, because I want it linked only for my
> development version of Racket. When I get to the point that I do want
> to use a different Racket version, it's a pain to juggle the links or
> make a copy for different version. I look forward to using packages,
> installation-specific links, and version-specific installs that are
> taken as snapshots of the git repo.

I have mostly the opposite impression of `raco link`.  I like the
default behavior, but that may be a result of my use of a set of
scripts [1] for managing Racket installations that makes basically
everything into installation-specific packages.

One additional issue with version-specific installs that I just
thought of -- imagine a student installing a course package on a lab
computer, and then Racket being upgraded during the semester.

[1] https://github.com/takikawa/racket-dev-goodies
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu