I think there must be a problem with v6.1's support for soft links on Windows, while previous versions of Racket were oblivious to links on Windows.
What does (resolve-path "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket") report? At Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:31:55 +0100, Antonio Menezes Leitao wrote: > Hi, > > Recent versions of Racket for Windows (at least, starting from 6.1.0.3) > cannot install packages from planet when Racket's AppData/Roaming/ folder > is a shortcut. I'm sure Racket could do it in previous versions. > > The output I get is: > > ..\..\Program Files\Racket-6.1.0.3\collects\racket\path.rkt:66:14: > normalize-path: element within the input path is not a directory or does > not exist > element: C:\Users\aml\AppData\Roaming\Racket > > Here are some additional tests: > > > (directory-exists? "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket") > #f > > (file-exists? "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket") > #f > > (link-exists? "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket") > #t > > The reason why I use a shortcut is simply because I use several different > machines which synchronize that folder using Dropbox. > > Is there a workaround (besides making C:\Users\aml\AppData\Roaming\Racket a > regular folder)? > > Best, > António. > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
