Re: [racket-dev] Updating dependency packages from other sources

2013-08-17 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:22:13 -0400, Asumu Takikawa wrote: I have in mind that `raco pkg update` would treat as package name as it does now, instead of like other package sources. That is, it would update based on how the package was previously installed. Right now updates from the local

Re: [racket-dev] Generics scoping issues

2013-08-17 Thread J. Ian Johnson
I discovered that afterwards, yes. However I do want to short-circuit just calls to free to use the defaults, not free-box. Currently I have to check the box in each instance. -Ian - Original Message - From: Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu To: J. Ian Johnson i...@ccs.neu.edu Cc: dev

Re: [racket-dev] main-repo packages on pkg.racket-lang.org

2013-08-17 Thread Greg Hendershott
Very cool. It seems to me this motivates some changes to the https://pkg.racket-lang.org/ UX: 1. The tag main-distribution ought to be privileged/restricted. As a 3rd party dev I shouldn't be allowed to assign that tag to one of my packages and trick people into installing it along with the

Re: [racket-dev] main-repo packages on pkg.racket-lang.org

2013-08-17 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Greg Hendershott greghendersh...@gmail.com wrote: Very cool. It seems to me this motivates some changes to the https://pkg.racket-lang.org/ UX: 1. The tag main-distribution ought to be privileged/restricted. As a 3rd party dev I shouldn't be allowed to