[racket] many permissions & other problems using packages in 5.3.6... workarounds?

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:01:27 -0600, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, John Clements
> > <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> > > My students are using 5.3.6 with packages... in particular, with the
> rsound
> > > package, that depends on the portaudio package. They've had a wide
> variety
> > > of problems; I'm hoping that these are fixed in 5.90, but short of
> telling
> > > my whole class to install a pre-release version, I'm not sure how to
> test
> > > that, so I'm just going to list them, and maybe y'all can tell me
> they've
> > > been fixed.
> > >
> > > 1) The most pervasive problem is one of permissions on Windows, where
> an
> > > update gets jammed because DrR can't delete the existing directory.
> This
> > > seems to happen pretty much every time a windows user updates. Nearly
> all of
> > > my students now know how to navigate to AppData/Roaming/Racket to
> delete
> > > these directories.
> >
> > I don't know what this means.
>
> I imagine that we need to make `raco pkg` attempt to rename a directory
> to something like "trash" when the directory can't be deleted (and
> purge any found "trash" directories that can be deleted).
>
>
That sounds like a great approach.

Robby
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