[racket] package dependancies, version exceptions, version dependancies, and pkg-build

On Jan 31, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> No, the version exception appears to be working fine, but it looks like
> there's a bug in the way that "pkg-build" decides which packages to
> retry.

Oh, okay.

> I see that the current pkg-build results for "typed-big-bang" are from
> yesterday, and the v6.1.1-specific mapping for "2htdp-typed" was added
> later.

I guess I missed that.  I had just noticed that it was different from what it was before then.

> The change to "2htdp-typed" was correctly detected by the pkg-build
> service, which today tried to build out of the "v6.1.1" branch of
> "2htdp-typed". It ran into a problem, and it looks like the reported
> error really is a problem with the "v6.1.1" branch when running on
> v6.1.1.

Yes but this has been fixed now.  

> Meanwhile, the pkg-build service today should have tried to rebuild
> "typed-big-bang", given that it had pulled an update to "2htdp-typed",
> and given that "typed-big-bang" declares a dependency on "2htdp-typed".
> When I try running pkg-build service again (I didn't let it run to
> completion), it does detect that "typed-big-bang" needs to be retried.
> So, the bug seems to be in "pkg-build" and its computation of the
> packages that need to be retried.
> 
> I'll work on the "pkg-build" bug. Meanwhile, if "2htdp-typed" is
> changed further to work for v6.1.1, I expect that the pkg-build service
> will catch up within an extra day.

Ok, thanks!

> At Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:45:49 -0500, "Alexander D. Knauth" wrote:
>> Weird things are happening with the pkg-build service with package 
>> dependancies and version exceptions.
>> I have a package, typed-big-bang, which depends on another package, 
>> 2htdp-typed.  
>> 2htdp-typed has a version exception, so that for 6.1.1, which is what the 
>> pkg-build service is using, it depends on htdp-lib, but for other versions, it 
>> depends on htdp-lib version 1.2.  
>> The pkg-build service builds the version for 6.1.1, which just depends on 
>> htdp-lib, (not the 1.2), but when it starts building typed-big-bang, it says 
>> that it can’t install it because 2htdp-typed depends on htdp-lib v1.2 and it’s 
>> installed as 1.1 in a different scope.  But shouldn’t it look at the version 
>> exception for 6.1.1, which doesn’t have the dependency on htdp-lib 1.2, just 
>> htdp-lib?  Is this a bug, or are packages not supposed to depend on version 
>> 1.2 of htdp-lib (even they have version exceptions that don’t), or what?
>> 
>> 
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