Thanks, Matthew. I'm currently stuck building racket, on which I shall post
a separate question, but I shall use this method once I've made that work!
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 13:37, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> It's not technically ok to shadow a package in installation scope with
> one in user scope, a
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 13:37, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> It's not technically ok to shadow a package in installation scope with
>
> Meanwhile, the current tools are better set up for starting with a
> GitHub checkout and building there. In that setting, for example, it's
> easier to use `raco pkg upda
On my machine, when I run the first command that you suggested, I get:
$ raco pkg update --lookup --catalog https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ slatex
open-output-file: cannot open output file
path: C:\Program Files\Racket\share\pkgs\_LOCKpkgs.rktd
system error: Access is denied.; errid=5
Inferred
You don't have to do that, there's just one extra step starting from a
pre-built distribution.
If you want to work on the "slatex" package for some reason, you'd do:
$ raco pkg update --lookup --catalog https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ slatex
...
$ raco pkg update --clone slatex
And then you have t
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for clarifying this.
The question was asked on this list several times in the past, and the
suggested approach was always to use `raco pkg update --clone`. The
non-obvious part, at least to me, was that one has to clone and build
Racket before starting to work on any packa
It's not technically ok to shadow a package in installation scope with
one in user scope, at least not if any package in installation scope
depends on the shadowed package. (That's why you have to use `--force`
to shadow in `--user` scope.) With that configuration, when the package
changes in user
I wrote some notes about how to do something similar, when I worked on the
plot package:
https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/01/changing-built-in-racket-packages.html
These instructions will work for the case where Racket is installed
globally and your current user does not have permissions to
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