This is great, I've now been able to submit several pull requests to use your new packages.
One package that I noticed you didn't move was 'htmlprag', which your web page says is obsolete. I mention this only because some packages on the pkg server (such as gut and wrap) still use this library. How trivial is it to port to the new code, or would this be something you could add to the package server? Sam On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > OK, I've moved 23 of my Racket packages from PLaneT to the new package > system, and I plan to move several more. Exactly what's been moved, and is > planned to move, is tracked at "http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/";. > > If you notice any problems related to this move, please email me. > > Perhaps the only "important" package of mine not yet moved is my SICP > DrRacket support one. That will package remain in PLaneT for now, for > stability for new students, until I have time to polish a few changes. When > my SICP support does move to the new package system, I suspect that the > package will be called `sicp2`, and that there will be a `#lang sicp2` (and > likely `#lang sicp2/ch1` etc.). There is a chance we will be able to use > `#lang sicp` without breaking backward-compatibility for anyone. > > For expedience, the packages moved so far all have a dependency on package > `mcfly`. I plan for this dependency to go away eventually, with a > forthcoming tools that wants the inline documentation in comments beginning > with ";;;", and that generates static `.scrbl` at packaging time. > > Research notes: Moving the 23 packages took roughly 40 person-hours of my > time, over 9 calendar days. A chunk of that being interim kludges to McFly > Tools, and another chunk to make my Web site automate a new way of hosting > packages and home pages. Separate from those two chunks, there were still > significant per-package costs that would still be incurred by someone moving > a large number of packages between package systems, even if they went > barebones with only URL-into-my-github and minimal changes -- such as > bit-rot, new bureaucratic hoops, and 4 naming collisions of various kinds. > I expect that my remaining to-be-moved packages, not counting SICP, will > each take between 15 minutes and 3 hours each. I have an idea how to make > engaged open source sharing easier for third party contributors, going > forward, (This is relevant to one of my research interests, in open source > ecology and process.) > > Thanks to Matthew, Jay, and others, for their help with this. > > Unclear yet whether Elton John will be doing a "candle in the wind" song for > PLaneT. > > Neil V. > > -- > 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.
