At Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:17:32 -0700, Jay McCarthy wrote: > As an aside in response to this whole thread, [...]
I recommend that further complaints and suggestions take the form of a patch. Creating a patch is more difficult, more time consuming, and you have to understand even more details of Planet2... and all of that is more or less the point, at this stage. We've had a long period of speculation about the package system, and now we have something concrete to try; further "discussion" on its design should be equally concrete. There's a possibility that, while working on actual code, you duplicate work by someone else who has the same idea. That problem is nothing new, though, as we have to deal with that in Racket development. Maybe drop a note here to say that you have plans. In that spirit: I have in mind suggesting version checking and package name services that can be version-specific, which I think will enable long-term support for released versions with fairly small changes to the Planet2 implementation. I won't get a chance to try my suggestions until next week, so no one who experiments in the next few days will conflict with my attempts (and I'll be happy to abandon my plans if someone else gets going first in a similar direction!). _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
