Hi, On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 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? > > > (resolve-path "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket") "C:\\Users\\aml\\AppData\\Roaming\\Racket" Best, António. 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 >
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