[plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] SchemeUnit confusion

We routinely update collections in the core code base and most of the  
time, it suffices to run setup on the new collection or a few others.  
(Personally I often update my code base from scratch once a day.)

I think it would be great if we got into this mode for SU, too. --  
Matthias





On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:10 AM, Dave Gurnell wrote:

> From an app developer's point of view, I think Noel's reasoning is  
> this:
>
> All of PLT is bundled together under one big version number. If you  
> upgrade the core, you upgrade all the satellite libraries as well.  
> This has three drawbacks:
>
>   - if you want to upgrade to a newer version of PLT for an  
> improvement in one library, you may have to deal with potential  
> backwards-incompatible changes in other libraries at the same time;
>
>   - compiling all of PLT can be slow;
>
>   - other software you have developed may still use older versions  
> of PLT.
>
> PLaneT offers a little more flexibility: to a certain degree you  
> can choose to upgrade one dependency independently of the rest.
>
> In other words, if Noel makes a change to Schemeunit, and a  
> developer is requiring it from the core, he/she will have to update  
> all of PLT at the same time, which might take a while and make  
> upgrading difficult. If, however, the developer is requiring  
> Schemeunit from PLaneT, they should hopefully be able to just  
> upgrade that one library and leave everything else as-is.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Dave
>
>> Noel, I don't understand this response at all. Could you  
>> elaborate? In the past we have deprecated planet package when we  
>> moved code into the core. -- Matthias
>>
>>> Dependency management. We've been bitten by changes in the web  
>>> server
>>> stopping us upgrading PLT to get bug fixes in other areas. Now
>>> SchemeUnit isn't as likely to change as the web server, but why make
>>> the dependency if you can avoid it? (This only applies if you aren't
>>> developing core code. If you are, use the core version.)
>>>
>>> N.
>>>
>>>> Why recommend the planet version over the core version?
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>
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