[racket-dev] Packaging

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 19 11:20:10 EST 2011

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> It looks to me like you there is relevant, important metadata that
> you're making someone fold into an implicit place instead of an
> explicit one.
>
> Will you have a convention for these? What if I decide to call mine
> "libgtk2.0" and someone else calls theirs "somepackage-2"? That
> doesn't seem good fo

[ Sorry; got distracted here and forgot to come back. ]

That doesn't seem good for users who are trying to find packages.
Especially if I were to call mine "2-somepackage" (you may think this
far fetched, but if you look you should find an example of this in our
current collection tree....)

Robby


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