Re: [racket-users] Version metadata on Racket packages

That answers my question.  Thank you. Jeff On 4/8/21 6:07 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: No, pkgs.racket-lang.org doesn't keep track of old checksums (or other old metadata) for packages. If you want that information (or in fact the actual copies of old packag

Re: [racket-users] Version metadata on Racket packages

Sam, Thanks for the help. Could it be that the package service is actually deleting old versions of packages when new ones are uploaded? The package service doesn't host any packages at all; just the metadata about them and pointers to where they are stored. This is an interesting answer, b

Re: [racket-users] Version metadata on Racket packages

The "version exceptions" are for Racket versions, for example, the "raco pkg install cover" in a Racket 8.0 installation will query the url: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/pkg/cover?version=8.0, while the same command in a Racket 6.7 installation will query https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/pkg/cover?

Re: [racket-users] Version metadata on Racket packages

Thanks for the help. In fact there are two concepts here, and part of what I think confused you is something I just discovered this week and plan to report as a bug: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/pkgs-all does not include the package's version . . . It

Re: [racket-users] Version metadata on Racket packages

Hi Jeff, In fact there are two concepts here, and part of what I think confused you is something I just discovered this week and plan to report as a bug: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/pkgs-all does not include the package's version: that's what's discussed on the Package Concepts

Re: [racket-users] Version metadata on Racket packages

The last sentence of the first paragraph you quoted starts with "A version is intended," but I don't know for sure if it is a complete answer. You'll also notice on the catalog that there are version exceptions, but you may have already read that by now. https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/getting