[racket-dev] [plt] Push #22159: master branch updated

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Feb 11 14:23:22 EST 2011

25 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > At Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:20:51 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >> So instead of changing the 510 back to 400, I think that I'll remove
> >> it completely, and make the packing code not include any version
> >> requirements at all, and make the unpacking code not check any version
> >> requirements from older versions.
> >>
> >> Matthew: does this sound reasonable?
> >
> > It's difficult to tell, but that sounds plausible.
> 
> This sounds like a bad idea for 5.1
> 
> If this is what we believe the right thing is, then I think that you
> should go back to 410 for the 5.1 release and look into removing it
> for 5.2.

There's no need to go back with the release -- I thought that the
change might lead to unknown issues, so I never merged it to the
release.  (IOW, it's going out with 400, still.)

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