On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very cool. > > It seems to me this motivates some changes to the > https://pkg.racket-lang.org/ UX: > > 1. The tag "main-distribution" ought to be privileged/restricted. As a > 3rd party dev I shouldn't be allowed to assign that tag to one of my > packages and trick people into installing it along with the others.
Such a trick wouldn't work because you can't install everything with a tag and a dishonest tag like that can be trivially removed. (FWIW, tags are not added by developers. Anyone can add any tag.) > 2. If I want to browse for interesting third-party packages, now I > will want the ability to search for `NOT <tag>`. For example to see > all packages _except_ those tagged "main-distribution". (Of course > that starts down the slippery slope of also wanting AND and OR > operators and parentheses. /me ducks.) This is planned. Jay > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >> All of the packages in the main repository are now listed on >> pkg.racket-lang.org. They have tags like "main-distribution" (for >> packages that are in the main distribution) and "main-tests" (for tests >> that are not in the distribution, but are for main-distribution code). >> >> >> If you try to install any of the packages in v5.3.6 or earlier, you get >> an empty package. The intent is that other packages can now declare >> proper dependencies for v5.90.x, and the dependency declaration won't >> break the package for v5.3.6 users. >> >> >> Meanwhile, with v5.90.x, you could build with just `make base' and then >> install more with, say, >> >> raco pkg install -i main-distribution >> >> For now, there's no advantage to doing that compared to just using >> `make PKGS=...'; you get everything with a git checkout, anyway. In the >> future, that might be closer to the way things work, and now we can >> experiment with that mode. >> >> >> The source for each package is an S3-hosted ".zip" file. Those sources >> are put in place by a periodic task that pulls from github, creates >> individual "zip" files, uploads to S3, and updates pkg.racket-lang.org. >> Currently, the job runs on a machine every 15 minutes (on the hour, 15 >> minutes after, etc.). We'll see how that works out, and probably we'll >> make it more reliable by having multiple machines check for updates --- >> including one triggered by notifications from Github. In any case, >> copying from the git repo to ".zip" files is expected to be a stop-gap >> until we're ready to split the main repository (which is some time >> away, I think). >> >> _________________________ >> 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
