[plt-scheme] Why is the PLaneT cache per-user?

On Feb 4, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Jacob Matthews wrote:

> Well, I didn't think of it in such a sinister light, but that's  
> basically it. When a normal user requires something from planet,  
> there's got to be somewhere to put the file. It's reasonable to  
> assume that a user can write into his/her own space, but it's not  
> reasonable to assume that same user can write to the place where  
> PLT Scheme is installed. (Actually IIRC the very first  
> implementation was per-installation, but this issue pretty much  
> made it useless until I changed it to behave in roughly the way it  
> behaves now.)
>
> -jacob
>

On a Unix system (including OS X), you could create a plt group and  
make the program itself setgid. I don't know if it would really be  
worth the trouble, though, except maybe on a system with a number of  
different users. Anyway, just a thought from someone else who isn't s  
PLaneT developer.

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