That answers my question. Thank you.
Jeff
On 4/8/21 6:07 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
No, pkgs.racket-lang.org <http://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
packages) then I recommend Bogdan Popa's racksnaps.
Sam
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 8:57 PM Jeff Henrikson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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, but it's an answer to a question
slightly
different from the one I intended. Please allow me to refine my
question:
For a given package, does the package service hold information about
historical versions, or only information about the latest version?
Jeff
> On 3/17/21 11:02 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 1:58 PM Jeff Henrikson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 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
<https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/pkgs-all> does not include the
package's version . . .
>> It seems that the issue you raise applies more generally than
to /pkgs-all. See appended below curl commands that show that the
package version is also missing in the response to a request for
information on a specific package.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Sam
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