Re: 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, 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]> 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 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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