[racket-dev] Too many license files

2014-02-21 Thread Togan Muftuoglu
Hi, As I am testing upcoming 6.0 release build process, one thing that strikes me is the number of LICENCE.txt files, 166 of them. add the 3 for the copying COPYING-libscheme.txt, COPYING_LESSER.txt, COPYING.txt makes 169 in total. Is is really necessary to have the 166 copies of the same

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28213: master branch updated

2014-02-21 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Feb 20, 2014 10:33 PM, Neil Toronto neil.toro...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/20/2014 02:52 PM, as...@racket-lang.org wrote: asumu has updated `master' from 1f27fb7848 to 1c6c0855f7. http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/1f27fb7848..1c6c0855f7 =[ 103 Commits

Re: [racket-dev] Too many license files

2014-02-21 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:17:26 +0100, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: As I am testing upcoming 6.0 release build process, one thing that strikes me is the number of LICENCE.txt files, 166 of them. add the 3 for the copying COPYING-libscheme.txt, COPYING_LESSER.txt, COPYING.txt makes 169 in total. Is

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28213: master branch updated

2014-02-21 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Feb 21, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Since Asumu didn't mention it, the first paper about this is here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/oopsla12-tsdthf.pdf Yeah, but don't read this. We will share a draft paper that looks more practical if you

Re: [racket-dev] Too many license files

2014-02-21 Thread Neil Van Dyke
For at least third-party packages (though you might want something trickier for core Racket)... I'm not a lawyer, but I figured that, for most packages I author, I probably don't *need* to include the full text of a well-known license (e.g., LGPLv3). Instead, I give the copyright notice,

Re: [racket-dev] Too many license files

2014-02-21 Thread Matthew Flatt
That sounds much more sensible than including COPYING.txt and COPYING_LESSER.txt everywhere. Unless someone tells me that it's a bad idea, I'll switch packages to refer to LGPL by reference. At Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:45:50 -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote: For at least third-party packages (though you

Re: [racket-dev] Racket head fails to compile

2014-02-21 Thread Paulo J. Matos
On 20/02/14 14:19, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Sun, 09 Feb 2014 08:35:03 +, Paulo J. Matos wrote: On 09/02/14 00:03, Matthew Flatt wrote: There should be many more flags passed to `gcc`, including some -I flags and some -D flags. Is something in your environment overriding the CFLAGS