[plt-scheme] Problems and Questions converting to PLaneT

On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Williams, M. Douglas wrote:

> I got it to work by changing the compile-subcollections in my  
> info.ss file to a list of list of paths.  The info.ss file is now:  
> [...]
Yes, this makes sense. I'll look into fixing planet to be tolerant of  
strings there for future releases; thanks for tracking the source of  
the problem down.
> Now I just need to know if there is a convenient way to compile it  
> – i.e. something similar to compile-collection-zos when something  
> isn’t actually in the collection path.
>
>

PLaneT for v300 automatically compiles .plt files when it installs  
them (this is in contrast to PLaneT for v20x).

Now to respond to your earlier questions:
> In any case, I should be able to build the .plt file for  
> distribution with PLaneT.  I used make-planet-archive to create a  
> plt file.  This seems to work okay.  (I assume that ‘planet -- 
> create-archive …’ would have done the same thing.)
Yes it would.
> Note that I cannot remove the package at this point.  In  
> particular, ‘planet --remove williams science.plt 2 0’ gives the  
> following: [...]
Yuck, very bad error handling in that case. I'll fix it for future  
releases.
> Just out of curiosity, why is the order of the arguments to the -- 
> file option different from the others with similar arguments (--  
> install, --download, and  --remove)?
I had what I thought was a good reason at the time, but I think I may  
no longer be persuaded by it -- it was to remind people that the file  
installer thing interprets version numbers in a different way than  
the others do; if you specify a particular user, package, and version  
with --download, say, it fetches whatever the planet require form  
would fetch and then installs it; on the other hand, --file installs  
exactly what you specify. But I don't think my ordering choice has  
yet actually suggested that to anybody, so it might be better to  
change the order so it's consistent.

-jacob
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