On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. I'm really excited about the book, which I'll buy. > > 2. Issuing a release solely to ship code for a book: > > a. Seems unusual (to me), in general. > > b. Plus right now, message seems at odds with the new package > manager and plan to move away from shipping monolithic collects? > > Admittedly that plan isn't in effect yet. But code for a book is a > use case that today's package manager supports AFAICT. So why accrete > another collection, is the reaction.
The problem is that the book has "collects/realm" printed in it and was designed simultaneously with the package system, so it wasn't clear to make it a package, how to describe getting it, etc. Jay > p.s. I'm sharing an observation casually, not stating an objection angrily. > > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> >> We will release Racket v5.3.5 next week. The purpose of the >> release is to include the Realm of Racket collection with the >> v5.3.4 release, because the book is about to appear. >> >> The release will strictly be built from >> >> -- Racket v5.3.4 >> -- collects/realm as currently found in git head >> >> We will __not__ make any other changes. >> >> Eli has worked out a process and will launch it asap. We will >> conduct a recursive diff of all .rkt files and we will run >> basic checks to ensure the integrity of the release bundle. >> If you're willing to help with these checks, please stay tuned. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> DRAFT RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: >> >> Racket version 5.3.5 is now available from >> >> http://racket-lang.org/ >> >> This is a special-purpose release to match the arrival of >> "Realm of Racket" in bookstores. Racket v.5.3.5 adds a >> single collection >> >> collects/realm/ >> >> to the v5.3.4 release. The new collection contains the source >> code that readers of Realm may wish to use for experiments. >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Comments welcome. -- Matthias >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev