On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Thu, 30 May 2013 09:01:16 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> I also really don't want to have Typed Racket's documentation outside >> of Typed Racket's code repository, and I think it would be a mistake >> to do that for other parts of Racket. An on-point comment on this >> from just yesterday in a different context: >> https://twitter.com/domenic/status/339848565838983168 and I think the >> same reasons that's true would make splitting repositories for code >> and documentation a big mistake. > > Just to make sure that everyone is on the same page: different packages > do not imply different repositories. > > When packages are in a single repository, though, things work best if > each package has its own subdirectory. I would imagine, for example, > that "scribble-lib", "scribble-doc", and "scribble" would all be > directories in a single repository (referenced by three packages), for > example. > > It may even make sense to have certain different packages in a single > repository whether or not we split "-lib" and "-doc" into packages.
Ok, that's reassuring. In that case, I'm ambivalent between 2 & 3. One question, though: how does this work with the package manager. Right now, only repositories can be specified as the source when creating a package at pkg.racket-lang.org. There must be something I'm missing about how this will work. Sam _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
