That should work, although it's better to declare a dependency on
"base" instead of "racket":
(define deps '(("base" #:version "6.0") ... )
You should generally declare a dependency on "base", anyway.
At least, that's the right way for v6.0 and later. If the goal is to
get a nice error message from v5.3.x, then you have to
* use the old format without `#:version`:
(define deps '(("base" "6.0") ... )
* use `#lang setup/infotab` instead of `#lang info`
for the "info.rkt" file, and
* declare the dependency on "racket", after all, since "base" didn't
exist as a package in v5.3.x:
(define deps '(("racket" "6.0") ... )
For a while in v6.0.x, there were some problems with dependency
checking in `raco setup` when a package declares a dependency on
"racket". Otherwise, even though declaring a versioned dependency on
"base" is better, declaring a dependency on "racket" should work. Can
you say more about how it went wrong?
At Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:22:56 -0700, Matthew Butterick wrote:
> On closer inspection, it seems possible that my recent install problems were
> a
> side effect of Racket being installed as a package dependency by my Pollen
> package, where the info.rkt contains this line:
>
> (define deps '(("racket" #:version "6.0") ... )
>
> Is this the wrong way to declare this kind of dependency? Basically I just
> want
> to signal that the package will not work with Racket 5.x.x.
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