On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 8:15:41 PM UTC-5, Neil Van Dyke 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.
That's awesome - thanks Neil. I hope I didn't put undue pressure on you in my previous thread :) -- 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.
