There is an open issue <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7054> for Pkg.rm() not removing broken packages.
On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:32:00 PM UTC+3, Simon Danisch wrote: > > The flickering reflects the framerate, so congratulations to all of the > people which got intense, unbearable flickering! =) > I run Ubuntu and Windows on my laptop, and on windows the flickering is at > least two times as fast. > Sad though, that Apple is on the Linux side in this regard. I hope that > this is not true for all graphic cards. > It's ironic, that windows seems to be the only platform, which > consistantly gets the graphic drivers right, but Julia is still in a rather > crippled state there... > > @J Luis > Now, that you describe this, I think I went through the same errors, and > resolved them with good ol' brute force. > Reinstalling completely everything until it worked :D > So the evidence is getting thicker for at least two errors inherent to the > package manager. > rm just works sporadically and packages are only found, if Julia is in the > right mood... Maybe it's time to actually open an issue about Julia > misbehaving on windows. > But most of the time, I couldn't reproduce them in the next second, so I > never actually went through with reporting them. > > could not spawn `cp -R builds/glfw-3.0.4.bin.WIN64/lib-mingw usr/lib`: no > such file or directory (ENOENT) > > This might as well be a Julia/Windows error. I suppose Julia isn't feeding > the windows copy command correctly. The copy command on windows is an order > of magnitude more picky than cp for some reasons.. > But on the other hand, this is working perfectly fine for me right now. Do > you have spaces in your absolute path? >
