[racket-dev] [plt] Push #21341: master branch updated

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Oct 26 10:06:38 EDT 2010

10 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> I like the change, but I object to late changes in releases. The
> build script may be an okay exception. My net opinion is no opinion.

(OK, so I have two weak votes on the two sides now.)

The main point that makes this an exception is:

> > * [...] Even if there are problems, fixing them is just
> >   repackaging the installers, keeping the same contents.

In other words, a bug in code almost always requires a new release,
but a bug in packaging requires just re-packaging and that can be done
any time (and this has been done in the past when there were packaging
issues).

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