At Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:44:17 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> I think we have, roughly, two options:
> 
> 1. Something like the split Matthew's tree proposes.  In fact, I think
> we need to split some things further, so that `gui-lib` doesn't depend
> on scribble-related things.
> 2. Something much, much more coarse-grained, such as the current split
> between the 'textual', 'graphical', 'drracket', and 'full'
> distributions. Note that even these don't really make sense because of
> documentation build dependencies.
> 
> I think that 1 is the right choice.
> 
> I also think that continuing to develop in separate branches as
> proposals is a mistake. It's very hard to understand what's going on
> in the `pkg` version of the tree without using it -- I certainly
> didn't. it's also very hard to construct working trees in this fashion
> without anyone using the code. If we're going to make this transition
> soon, we should do it now, and then reorganize packages as necessary.

I agree, and so I'll renew the proposal that we make the switch.

Could we switch with option 1 on, say, Tuesday?

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