Thanks. We will add an explicit section on beta-elements of the release, and the message should encourage people to try the package system.
-- Matthias On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > We can't actually remove the package system, but we can leave it as > "beta" in v5.3.2 --- and in that case, v5.3.2 becomes the broader test > process for the package system. > > At Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:31:52 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> I know it is probably too late for that but can we release this one as 5.3.2 >> w/o the package system and do so quickly? >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> At Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:51:03 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Ryan Culpepper <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Please tell me if you think that this release is significant enough >>>>>> that it should be announced on the users list for wider testing. >>>>> >>>>> I think the new package system (yay Jay!) is significant enough that >>>>> it should get wide testing, and that it merits the release number 5.4. >>>> >>>> +1 on v5.4. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure about wider testing, because I think it will take time to >>>> build up enough packages to make testing interesting. >>> >>> I think some wider testing can still be useful. For example, does >>> sytem-wide/installation-wide/user-specific package installation work >>> on all flavors of Windows/Linux/OSX that we support. >>> >>> Another issue, which perhaps Jay has more insight into -- are we >>> planning to move the PNS to racket-lang.org prior to the release? >>> >>> Sam >>> _________________________ >>> Racket Developers list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [application/pkcs7-signature "smime.p7s"] [~/Desktop & open] [~/Temp & open]
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