[racket] Does anyone know how to use launcher/launcher?

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
>> I can see that an empty file has been constructed:
>>
>> ####################################
>> fermi ~/work/whalesong $ ls -l hi
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 dyoo nogroup 0 Jun 14 15:49 hi*
>> ####################################
>>
>> At the very least, the executable bit is set.  I'm about to start
>> looking through the source to launcher/launcher to figure out what's
>> going on, but want to double check: am I misusing the library?
>
>
> Bug tracked!  There's a missing condition that needs to be added: the
> launcher library assumes that the template file is writable, because
> it uses copy-file to move it into the destination.  However, on my
> setup here in the Brown CS lab, the Racket installation is shared, and
> none of the collection files are user-writable.  So the
> template-writing function must use file-or-directory-permissions.
>

Thanks, Danny. That sounds like a good patch to me.

Robby