Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:59:28 +0200, tog...@opensuse.org wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:00:14 -0600, Matthew Flatt > said: > > Matthew> Longer term, I think that OS-level packages/ports should probably > Matthew> reflect a minimal Racket installation, and then further Racket >

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:58:23 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > I'm worried about something. What will be the policy related to the > bugfix releases of the packages?. Now, if some part of racket is broken > on OpenBSD, I temporally patch the port and wait the next release of > racke

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:43:13 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:02:28 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > > > But when you run `raco pkg install' or `raco pkg update', then the > > package details are not necessari

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:02:11 -0400, Greg Hendershott wrote: > 1. Racket has a wonderful story about simple installation. > > [..] > > For many users, a monolithic(ish) simple install will remain a wonderful > thing. > > As best I understand, the proposal isn't to get rid of that, instead > it's

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-15 Thread Togan Muftuoglu
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:34:00 -0600, Matthew Flatt > said: Matthew> At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:59:28 +0200, tog...@opensuse.org wrote: >> > On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:00:14 -0600, Matthew Flatt >> said: >> Matthew> Longer term, I think that OS-level packages/ports shou

Re: [racket-dev] package-system update

2013-07-15 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew Flatt wrote at 07/13/2013 02:56 PM: Others seem overwhelmed by the details, unsure of how it will all work out, and disconcerted by conflicting messages from others who seem to understand the issues. BTW, I don't know whether I'm involved in anyone being disconcerted. If I am, please