[plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.2.1

Eli, this seems to be related to the old Vista problem we had before (I think it was Robby that tracked it down) with the virtual store. On Vista, if system files are re-written, the updated copy is written in the Virtual Store - not to the file itself. Unfortunately, these persist over installs of PLT Scheme. 

In Linux, this manifests itself as not being able to write to /usr.

It seems that setup-plt is rewriting the index wherever the distribution is loaded. I thought it was writing it to a user file before.

I think the discussion was off the mailing list - anyway, I didn't find it when quickly looking through the archives.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Doug Williams <m.douglas.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It happened for every package I tried - five total.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 21, Doug Williams wrote:
> With the release candidate, I encountered the following error when I tried
> loading the science collection using (require (planet
> williams/science/science)):
>
> setup-plt: given collection path: #<path:scribblings\main\user>
> refers to the same directory as another given collection path

> [...]

I just saw that error in one of the test runs, and assumed it was very
rare to run into it.  Do you reliably get the problem?

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