[racket-dev] Mangaging `unstable` with packages

I'm not completely clear on what latent-contracts are, but perhaps options
should be being used there?

Robby


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> The new package organization gives us a chance to re-asses the
> "unstable" collection.
>
> Going forward, I think the "unstable" collection should be used in the
> following ways:
>
> 1. If you build something that you think is general-purpose, but is
> only used in one package, put it in `unstable/foo`, but keep it inside
> that package.
>
> 2. If you either (a) want to use some other package's `unstable/foo`
> library, or (b) create such a library that's used across multiple
> packages, create a separate package called "unstable-foo" for it.
>
> It's perhaps worth saying why we still need "unstable" at all in the
> new regime.  We might just create a new package for, say, parameter
> groups, and just add that as a dependency of "plot". But that would
> ship a library in a useful location, and potentially commit us to that
> library and API for the future. So I think we should keep "unstable"
> around.
>
> With that said, I'd like to also propose moving the following out of
> "unstable":
>
> # `unstable/list`
>
> - `remf`, `list-update` `list-set` `map/values`: move to `racket/list`
> - `group-by`: rename to `group`, add keyword argument `#:by`
> defaulting to `equal?`, move to `racket/list`
>
> - `extend`, `filter/values`: move back into Typed Racket
> - `list-prefix?`: move back into the web server
>
> - `map2`, `check-duplicate`, `*-common-prefix`: Delete
>
> # `unstable/parameter-group`
>
> This is used by both the "image" and "plot" libraries. Create a new
> top-level collection and package.
>
> # `unstable/latent-contract`
>
> Currently undocumented. Used by the image collection anyway.  This
> needs to be fixed.
>
> That's it for things outside of the "unstable" package, which I'll
> tackle another time.
>
> Sam
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