[racket-dev] Official PLaneT account?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 20 07:44:41 EDT 2012

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 07/20/2012 07:23 AM:
>
>>> I was thinking that it'd be more appropriate to put the
>>> 'parser-combinator' and 'tex2page' packages under such an account rather
>>> than under mine.
>>>
>>
>> Note that it's probably easier for people who need these packages to
>> use them from GitHub with 'raco link', since then they wouldn't need
>> to change any `require` lines.
>
> Shouldn't everyone try to eat PLaneT brand dog food?  (Not subsist off of
> Git brand dog treats.)

Whether or not that's the case in general, in 5.2.1 you can do:

   (require combinator-parser)

which can't be replicated with a PLaneT package, but can be replicated
with a library set up with `raco link`, so this may be more useful for
existing users of this now-deprecated code.

-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu

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