[racket-dev] RFC: Coding Guidelines

On Sep  2, Noel Welsh wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > Well -- you do, in a sense.  When something is broken, someone
> > needs to fix it.  There's tons of stuff that is (or has)
> > bitrotting away since there's no proper owner to take care of some
> > code, or bugs in code with no clear owner need to wait for someone
> > to volunteer to do the work -- and that's less likely to happen.
> 
> Agreed. I think less stuff should be in the core, and this would go
> some way to solving the problem. I think you want this as well.

Yes, I want this -- but the ownership issue is still pending as long
as the libraries in question are maintained in the plt repository as a
group effort.


> To elaborate, I think Racket should still come with all the
> libraries it currently does but 1) they should have versions like
> Planet does and 2) they should be distributable independently of
> Racket core. This way a particular library update is independent of
> updates to other libraries or the core.

(Yes, that's the plan.)

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