On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote:
> > One other thing that I think is important in a migration path is > > keeping any modification made to the source of the packages that are > > already installed. > > Yeah -- and IIUC, the difference between the two installations is > where the packages get installed is where the compiled files are, so > the sources are the same. At least I *hope* that that's how it is, > otherwise it's back to the whole planet "cache" things, which IMO was > a major mistake. They are in the same place. However, I thought the whole premise of this proposed behavior is that the package won't work in the new version of Racket, so certainly the package system can't be responsible for doing a merge your local changes and whatever the updated version of the package needs. Jay -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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