[racket-dev] [plt] Push #24958: master branch updated

I think the tool should be outside of the "racket" collection, too, and
a "future-visualizer" collection sounds right to me.

At Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:33:02 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> > >> It is the future visualizer so I thought it belonged with the
> > >> visualizer. No?
> > >
> > > (You mean "... belonged with the futures", right?)
> > 
> > Right. :)
> > 
> > >> Alternative suggestions welcome.
> > >
> > > I think that it fits well with other meta-analysis kind of tools like
> > > errortrace and the profiler, so a new toplevel collection seems to
> > > make perfect sense.  I don't have a concrete suggestion better than
> > > "future-visualizer" though since I don't know what it does exactly.
> > > Maybe "future-debugger" or "future-tracker" or something like that?
> > 
> > I think we have too many top-level collections and making a new one,
> > especially with "future-" in the name seems like a step in the wrong
> > direction.
> 
> If more tools will be there, then it could be "futute/something"...
> Or maybe add a new "tools" collection for other similar things?
> But in any case, having a new toplevel collection seems much less of a
> problem than having a tool in racket/*.
> 
> > ("visualizer" is a better word than "debugger" or "tracker" for what
> > it does, IMO, altho it has elements of those. But if you read the docs
> > in the Guide about it, you should get some idea what it does.)
> 
> An hour and a half ago, James Swaine wrote:
> > 
> > Agreed, "debugger" and "tracker" don't really adequately describe
> > it.  Maybe "future-profiler" is another option, but maybe confusing
> > since we already have "profiler".  (But I still think "visualizer"
> > is best, IMHO).
> 
> (I did say that I don't know what it's doing so I was blindly
> guessing...)
> 
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