What a pity, I did not know this book before. I've been translating the source code of Land of Lisp using the racket way. I just finish the Grand Theft Wumpus game.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
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