Re: [racket-dev] Problem with planet and Windows shortcuts

2014-09-29 Thread Antonio Menezes Leitao
Hi, On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > To catch up the list: Antonio sent me more information, and the problem > is that Racket was handling symbolic links but not junctions (which are > a different kind of link on Windows). > > Antonio: I've pushed a repair to handle juncti

Re: [racket-dev] Problem with planet and Windows shortcuts

2014-09-27 Thread Matthew Flatt
To catch up the list: Antonio sent me more information, and the problem is that Racket was handling symbolic links but not junctions (which are a different kind of link on Windows). Antonio: I've pushed a repair to handle junctions, so let me know if it works for you. At Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:32:48

Re: [racket-dev] Problem with planet and Windows shortcuts

2014-09-18 Thread Antonio Menezes Leitao
Hi, On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Matthew Flatt 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") > > r

Re: [racket-dev] Problem with planet and Windows shortcuts

2014-09-18 Thread Matthew Flatt
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: > H

[racket-dev] Problem with planet and Windows shortcuts

2014-09-17 Thread Antonio Menezes Leitao
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: