[plt-scheme] Updating PLaneT distributed tools: any conflicts?

From: Jacob Matthews (jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 29 15:36:28 EST 2007

Yes, sorry, the most recent _locally-installed_ version of a given planet
package.

-jacob

On 1/29/07, Robby Findler <robby.findler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The most recent version of a planet package that is already installed,
> right?
>
> Robby
>
> On 1/29/07, Jacob Matthews <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > DrScheme always chooses only the most recent version of a PLaneT package
> by
> > default when looking for tools to run at startup.
> >
> > (Sorry I missed this message until now!)
> >
> > -jacob
> >
> >
> >  On 1/22/07, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm planning to make a point release of DivaScheme to push another few
> bug
> > > fixes we've made recently.  (As well as a feature to cooperate with
> > > DrScheme's automatic open-paren fixup thing.  Hurrah!)
> > >
> > > One thing I was wondering, though: how does DrScheme choose which
> version
> > > of a PLaneT-distributed tool to load?
> > >
> > > Assuming that there are several versions of that tool already
> installed in
> > > the local cache, does DrScheme always go for the highest version for
> each
> > > tool, or does it instead choose the one most-recently configured by
> > > setup-plt?
> > >
> > > I'm concerned that for people who already have DivaScheme (PLaneT
> package
> > > 1.0) release installed, the presence of that old version might
> interfere
> > > with any new releases.  Regardless, it should be easy to address:  I
> can
> > > just write a quick uninstaller program that tells PLaneT to wipe older
> > > versions of DivaScheme.  Still, I'm curious what the official policy
> of
> > > this is.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
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