Here are a couple of possible solutions:
* Use `raco pkg migrate` or the "Copy from Version" panel in
DrRacket's package manager (from the "File" menu).
I recommend this approach, assuming that you're doing something like
upgrading a regular release.
* Configure each installation with the same name, instead of
using the version number as the name. For example
raco pkg config --set name current
will cause user-scope package installations to be installed into a
user-specific "current" directory instead of a user- and
version-specific directory.
With this approach, you'll also need to run `raco setup` to rebuild
installed packages when you change Racket versions.
If you're working with snapshots or builds from the main repo's
top-level makefile, then a version-independent installation name is
already being used: "snapshot" or "development", respectively. In
the latter case, though, the default package scope is set to
"installation", so package installations are not shared by default;
you can change the default scope to "user".
At Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:40:53 -0500, Jonathan Schuster wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a user-specific but non-version-specific
> installation scope for packages? The docs [1] appear to indicate that you
> can have user+version-specific or non-user+non-version-specific installs,
> but neither of the other two combinations.
>
> The main problem is that it's a (minor) pain to install all of my packages
> every time a new Racket version comes out, and installing packages for all
> users seems like a heavy-handed solution. I have a feeling this has been
> discussed before, but I couldn't find anything on either mailing list.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
> [1]
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/Package_Concepts.html#%28part._concept~3ascope%
> 29
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