[racket-dev] Planet 2 default package name services

From: Jay McCarthy (jay at cs.byu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 12 13:07:10 EST 2012

Yes, that's part of the transition plan. Right now is not an opportune
time for me to do it because of finals, etc. But I anticipate to get
it ready for Eli to make the necessary redirects by Christmas.

Jay

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> The default Planet 2 package name services are URLs based on
> plt-etc.byu.edu.  While I understand why Planet 2 is hosted there -- all of
> Racket is at one university or another -- wouldn't a racket-lang.org URL be
> better, and then redirect to *.byu.edu behind the scenes?  Like
> planet2.racket-lang.org for plt-etc.byu.edu:9003 and
> legacy.planet2.racket-lang.org for ...:9004, or something like that?  That
> would be more intuitive for anyone looking at the URLs, and flexible in case
> we decide to move the hosting at a later date.
>
> Carl Eastlund
>



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