At Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:47:41 -0400, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> When I have a directory foo/, containing a single-collect package, and I
> install it with "raco pkg install foo/", it seems to copy the contents
> of the directory, meaning local edits are not found by the system.
> Instead I have to "raco pkg install --link foo/".
>
> I would prefer it if "--link" were the default.
That would make directory sources a special case, but I think it often
makes sense for command-line tools to have weird rules[*], especially
if there's a flag to enable more consistent rules.
So `--link' could be the default, while `--copy' (?) could disable
special handling of directory sources?
[*] I adopted this position when changing the old `mzscheme'
command-line parsing rules to the current `racket' rules. I think
`racket' ended up with especially weird command-line parsing, but
it has worked well, as far as I can tell.
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