[racket] Planet2 questions

From: Berthold Bäuml (berthold.baeuml at dlr.de)
Date: Tue Apr 9 13:00:27 EDT 2013

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>> on top of such a low level system one can add more convenient interfaces for users for the more standard use cases, e.g., mimicking the  version disregarding behavior of planet2 -- but it is not possible to do it the other way round.
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> Are you sure? You can add commands to raco, e.g., neckermann. Let's say that this meaningless name means "packages with versioning enforced". Don't you think you would be able to re-surrect the relevant parts of planet1 with 
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> raco neckermann install catalog 1.7.8 
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> reaching out to raco pkg? -- Matthias

I think it is not about adding commands to raco but, as you also mentioned, about having a back-end with the information planet1 can provide but planet2 does not. I always thought Jay is saying that planet2 will be the only base for a coming higher level functionality but that planet1 will be deprecated (or only be kept for compatibility).

Berthold


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