[racket-dev] haskell's 'hell of a lot of libraries', planet

I recall your proposal from back then, and I will give you my thoughts: 

1. a 'remote url' require (which is what Planet boils down to) imposes a serious cost overhead (for compilation) and a connectivity overhead (suppose I send you code and you wish to compile it on your netbook while on the subway). People who get this kind of code should be aware of it. At a minimum, the path should start with /planet/  and that'll set it apart. (There's more, such as versioning.) 

2. it is easy to find and fix collects code. Planet's download mechanism would have to change a lot to enable that. 




On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:17 PM, YC wrote:

> IMHO planet works very well and shouldn't have issue to scale beyond a few thousand packages if it ever gets to that point.  However, to get there I believe planet first needs one major upgrade - it needs to become "location transparent" - meaning that requiring modules in COLLECTS and PLANET look exactly the same from code perspective.
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> With this change the invisible cultural divide between planet and core distribution will disappear, and core team can tap into the work of module developers, which in turn will help module developers feel more involved in the community - the virtuous cycle can then be built to gain momentum to increase the community. 
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> I have discussed the issues in detail back in January in the thread http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2010-January/037703.html - and love to discuss further if others are interested.
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> Cheers,
> yc
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> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> If this hasn't come up yet here, please do take a look at
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>  http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/there-are-a-hell-of-a-lot-of-haskell-libraries-now-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-it/
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> I am sure we will face this kind of problem one day and we might be able to prepare ourselves a bit.
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