On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamo...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote:
> These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. > > Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, > I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous > release notes discussion, Jay and Neil had some bullets that I don't see > on this list. There also were a lot more things in Robby's original > email. > > I spoke with Neil privately about the changes and got some agreement and my list was not intended as a list of things that were all to be included. I probably just made a mistake: would you mind helping me fix it? A candidate bullet would be great! > If we want to keep the announcement itself short, should we point to the > various HISTORY.txt files where users can get more details? > > I'm happy to do this too, but less excited about it, especially since we've now got a much better mechanism that we can use in the next release and we've not done this past releases. Robby > Vincent > > > > At Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:27:21 -0600, > Robby Findler wrote: > > > > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] > > [1.1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>] > > Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? > > > > Robby > > > > > > > > Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available > > packages. Please visit > > > > http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ > > > > for an overview. > > > > Recent releases included the "beta" versions of the package system. > > Racket version 6.0 incorporates many improvements suggested by these > > preliminary experiences: > > > > * A package is treated as a single collection by default, so it is even > > easier to use a Github repository as a package. Get started quickly: > > http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/getting-started.html > > > > * DrRacket includes a new package manager GUI, which is also available > > as a stand-alone program via the "gui-pkg-manager" package. > > > > * The main Racket distribution has been broken into about 200 packages. > An > > installation starts with Minimal Racket and then adds these bundled > > packages. > > > > Alternatively, you may now install a Minimal Racket distribution --- > > which is about 1/10 the size of the main distribution --- and add only > > those packages that you need. > > > > * Package installation supports pre-built packages that include > > compiled byte code and rendered documentation, meaning packages can be > > installed quickly when built versions are a available. All packages in > > the main distribution are available in pre-built form. > > > > Further improvements are in the works, including package documentation on > > the package-catalog web site. > > > > COMPATIBILITY NOTE: PLaneT will remain in place for the foreseeable > future, > > but we expect all package work to shift to the new system. > > > > Beyond the package system, this release brings a number of other changes: > > > > * Racket's HTML documentation has a new and improved look, thanks to > > Matthew Butterick. > > > > * Racket's JIT compiler supports the ARM architecture. > > > > * Racket supports the Mac's Retina display mode. > > > > * The profiler provides a new mode that uses the errortrace library to > > produce fine-grained profiles. > > > > * A new contract profiler reports how much time programs spend checking > > contracts, and which contracts are most expensive. > > > > * The math/flonum library exports fast 105-bit precision operations. > > > > * Check Syntax handles generated identifiers, especially those > > introduced by struct (e.g. field selectors) and Redex (e.g., e_1, e_2) > > > > * 2htdp/batch-io includes functions for dealing with html/xml in files > and > > web sites as X-expressions plus conveniences for web-based graph > > traversals. > > [1.2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > > > > [2 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > > _________________________ > > Racket Developers list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >
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