@laurent.orseau sorry to at you, but I have a weird problem quickscript, some of the included scripts with quickscript-extra have references to quickscript/utils, but I don’t see any module like that in the git repo for quickscript, so I was wondering if my installation is broken or something. I’m using racket 8.0 [cs]

quickscript/utils is in racket 8.2 I believe. Are you able to upgrade your racket distr?

And no worries, happy to help!

At least when bugs are reported I know there are some quickscript users :smile:

If you can’t or don’t want to update the whole racket distr, just doing raco pkg update --clone quickscript in a directory of your choice (where the git clone will be placed) should work, but it’s safer to update everything just in case. Also, you’ll have nice s-exp comments! :wink:

The file is here: https://github.com/Metaxal/quickscript/blob/master/utils.rkt

oh, ok thank you! I also saw the other messages.

Well I want to update, but not losing the installed packages I remember it was a pain, and I don’t remember how

This can help migrating packages: https://gist.github.com/Metaxal/13c4effc483c5ef9f5797ace4950f97a Install the new racket, then run this script.

It only works if you upgrade from release to release, or snapshot to snapshot though, as they use different directories.

alright i see

so i use the installer script in http://racket.org\|racket.org then i run this

otherwise it’s just a matter of raco pkg migrate <from-version>

alright got it, thank you very much, ill try it now

question, do i have to run racket-uninstall?

would that remove the pkgs?

that will not remove the packages, only what was previously installed the last time you ran the installer

It’s better to run it to avoid having several versions of racket on the same machine, just to avoid issues

well, it didn’t work there is a folder name 8.0 in ~/.local/share/racket which i suppose is what i want do i have to modify your script with something like parameterize? migrate also didnt do anything

well, it migrated /some/ packages, but like 4 out of 20 or something like that

have you tried raco pkg migrate 8.0 (or whatever was the previous version you had)

yes, it doesn’t pick up ~/.local/share/racket it seems

did you install a snapshot or a release right now?

release to release

uh, that’s weird

try raco pkg show to see what it knows about maybe

Installation-wide: Package Checksum Source br-parser-tools 9b2d7cc759b40fd5... catalog...ser-tools brag d3405dd0abfcf221... catalog...path=brag levenshtein 47882e819e941121... catalog levenshtein main-distribution 9de918bdde391320... catalog...tribution racket-langserver 490c72ad7ef35878... catalog...erver.git racket-lib 01371177cdc1c63a... catalog racket-lib [206 auto-installed packages not shown] User-specific for installation "8.3": [none] installation wide packages worked it seems

no user installed package, that’s strange. It’s precisely these packages that my script should migrate

Do you have a ~/.racket directory?

maybe it got confused between home paths

nope

Do you now have ~/.local/share/racket/8.3/pkgs and ~/.local/share/racket/8.0/pkgs ?

If so, maybe you can just move the latter into the former, as well as the links.rktd file

and then run the script again

i have both, alright

i found something though

passing a "8.0" to read-pkgs-db

could work

maybe use (get-pkgs-dir 'user "8.0")

i tried, same result as raco migrate

argh

ok i copied the 8.0 to 8.3

im running raco setup now

it’s doing something

ah, finally :slightly_smiling_face:

thank you for your support

yep, all fine now, thank you once again

ah, great to know it’s sorted

no problem

This upgrade thing should definitely be more straightforward though :confused:

yeah, I didn’t want to update (even if I really liked the new docs template with its scroll bar) because of the bad experience in the past of losing all pkgs installed

certainly makes sense