[racket-dev] [plt] Push #27595: master branch updated

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 16 09:34:17 EDT 2013

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> It caught me off guard and feels unintuitive. And the negative of
> accidentally running it doesnt seem to outweigh having to type an extra
> "--link <dirname>" (especially after cloning, when you are not in the
> directory you just created anyways).

Having just spent some time working with some Haskell code and doing
this repeatedly with `cabal`, I'm now even more convinced that it's
the right thing.

> I doubt I'm going to change any minds though so at the very least this
> behavior should be mentioned in raco pkg install --help.

I'll push this soon -- it requires extending `command-line` a bit in a
way that should be generally useful.

Sam

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