I think a pull request is the right idea. When requests like that fall in my area of maintenance, sometimes I've merged them, and sometimes I've suggested that a package would be better. I thought the pull request was helpful either way.
Matthew At Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:37:13 -0800 (PST), Brian Adkins wrote: > What is the process for providing additions to Racket's standard library? Do > people just submit pull requests, or is there a particular vetting process, > to > determine whether a function is generally useful enough to warrant inclusion > in the standard library, that should happen first to avoid cluttering the > pull > request queue? > > As I get deeper into Racket, I expect I'll occasionally find a function I'm > used to having in the standard library of another language missing. I can > easily create my own packages for this sort of thing, but some of them may be > useful enough to add to Rackets standard library. > > In the case of functions from another language's standard library, there is > at > least some filtering that has already happened, but I suppose the barrier to > inclusion into the standard library varies quite a bit among languages. > > Thanks, > Brian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
