On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Greg Hendershott > The concept of backwards compatibility does not apply to beta software > in my opinion. The next release will be the first release where the > package system is not beta.
I understand. OTOH this is a public beta where people are invited to use it for real, and pkg.racket-lang.org already has many packages. If we had somehow painted ourselves into a corner where a required change had no (reasonable) backward compatibility tactic, people would (have to) understand and accept that. And in that case maybe we'd want to "re-launch" the package system as "Works only with 5.3.90 or higher", for sanity. But so far, in cases like multi vs. single collection default, or #:version, it's very much appreciated the intent has been to preserve it -- thanks! _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
