On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote:
> FYI, given the single namespace of all Racket package names, I was trying to
> figure out to what to do with old Scheme packages that were still in use,
> but which had names that I didn't want to waste on archaic APIs.  I ended up
> just appending "-old" to the old package name.
>
> http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/rfc3339-old/
> http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/numformat-old/
>
> BTW, I don't see a mechanism/process for keeping people from stomping over
> particularly important package names (like "rfc<number>" or "object"), with
> poor-quality interfaces/implementations.

The mechanism is gentleness, meekness, and love unfeigned. People,
including me, keep an eye on contributions and try to give helpful
suggestions and nudges to work together to produce excellent software.

Jay

> Neil V.
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