[racket-dev] proposal for moving to packages

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue May 21 02:41:09 EDT 2013

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz <jao at gnu.org> wrote:

> Here's hope that down the line there'll be binary+source packages that
> end users can install with the same ease as today.

Matthew's email mentioned this a little, but the plan is that:

    $ raco pkg install drracket

will install source as well as binaries.  The big change is that the
distribution you get from http://racket-lang.org/download/ won't
include all of that stuff.

Sam

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