[racket-dev] Adding the new plot library [was: Re: Plot?]

Eli Barzilay <eli at ...> writes:
> The thing is that keeping things completely backward compatible means
> keeping some C code (the fit thing), and that translates to a real
> problem with linux distributions (see the Fedora point earlier).  Not
> being completely backward compatible has the advantage of moving at
> least the Fedora distribution faster (and I won't be surprised if
> Debian/Ubuntu would have issues with this too -- I'm surprised they
> didn't say anything about it so far).

I did -- http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=10756. :)
You convinced me that the status quo was good enough for now and that it'd
eventually be replaced by scheme^Wracket.  Glad to see that's happening.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>