[racket-dev] Problem with planet and Windows shortcuts

To catch up the list: Antonio sent me more information, and the problem
is that Racket was handling symbolic links but not junctions (which are
a different kind of link on Windows).

Antonio: I've pushed a repair to handle junctions, so let me know if
it works for you.

At Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:32:48 +0100, Antonio Menezes Leitao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I think there must be a problem with v6.1's support for soft links on
> > Windows, while previous versions of Racket were oblivious to links on
> > Windows.
> >
> > What does
> >
> >  (resolve-path "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket")
> >
> > report?
> >
> >
> >  (resolve-path "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket")
> "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket"
> 
> 
> Best,
> António.
> 
> 
> At Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:31:55 +0100, Antonio Menezes Leitao wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Recent versions of Racket for Windows (at least, starting from 6.1.0.3)
> > > cannot install packages from planet when Racket's AppData/Roaming/ folder
> > > is a shortcut. I'm sure Racket could do it in previous versions.
> > >
> > > The output I get is:
> > >
> > > ..\..\Program Files\Racket-6.1.0.3\collects\racket\path.rkt:66:14:
> > > normalize-path: element within the input path is not a directory or does
> > > not exist
> > >   element: C:\Users\aml\AppData\Roaming\Racket
> > >
> > > Here are some additional tests:
> > >
> > > > (directory-exists? "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket")
> > > #f
> > > > (file-exists? "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket")
> > > #f
> > > > (link-exists? "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket")
> > > #t
> > >
> > > The reason why I use a shortcut is simply because I use several different
> > > machines which synchronize that folder using Dropbox.
> > >
> > > Is there a workaround (besides making
> > C:\Users\aml\AppData\Roaming\Racket a
> > > regular folder)?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > António.
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