[racket] tool warnings from raco

How are you installing Racket? From a git build or a snapshot or something else?

Robby

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Matthew Butterick <mb at mbtype.com> wrote:
> Hm, that is curious.
>
> Whenever I do `raco planet [anything]` I get `Unrecognized command: planet`.
>
> Also, when I do `raco help` I don't get `planet` as an option:
>
> All available commands:
>   link     manage library-collection directories
>   pkg      manage packages
>   pollen   issue Pollen command
>   setup    install and build libraries and documentation
>
>
> BTW could it be a problem that `pollen` is both the name of a package and a
> raco command installed by that package?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>
> The raco planet commands are still there and there are no plans to
> eliminate them.
>
> Can you say what errors you're getting?
>
> Robby
>
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Matthew Butterick <mb at mbtype.com> wrote:
>
> Do you have any links that were installed via `raco link` instead of
> `raco pkg`, such as a link from developing "pollen" before the package
> system?
>
>
> Yes, Pollen was originally a PLaneT module, but IIRC I used `raco planet
> link` to install it (consistent with the instructions here [1])
>
> Here's how I can reproducibly shift between states:
>
> 1) Warning appears ("tool "pollen" registered twice ...")
> 2) Delete `info-cache.rktd`. Warning disappears.
> 3) Do `raco pkg remove pollen`.
> 4) Go to pollen directory and do `raco pkg install`.
> 5) Warning reappears.
>
> So maybe it's a simple matter of erasing the old PLaneT references (?) but
> I'm not sure where those lurk, and all the `raco planet ...` commands
> referenced in the docs [2] are apparently long gone.
>
> [1] http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge/
>
> [2]
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet/index.htmlhttp://docs.racket-lang.org/planet/index.html
>
>
>
> At Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:12:44 -0700, Matthew Butterick wrote:
>
> When I invoke raco from the command line, it throws the warning:
>
> warning: tool "pollen" registered twice: "pollen" and
> #<path:/path/to/pollen>
>
>
>
> This error also appeared on racket-dev in Jul 2013. At that time Matthew
> Flatt
> said:
>
> I changed `raco setup' to use relative paths for the info-domain cache,
> but not to prune away the old absolute paths.
>
> For now, you can delete "racket/lib/info-cache.rktd", and I'll work on
> a repair to `raco setup'.
>
>
>
> But though I've tried deleting info-cache.rktd, the warning eventually
> returns.
>
> The problem doesn't surface with other packages. It doesn't seem to affect
> how
> anything works.
>
> It also might be a bug in this particular package, though I'm not clear how
> a
> package can mess with raco's registration scheme.
>
>
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