[racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

Yesterday, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> At Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:42:53 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > 
> >  1. Revert the addition of `compatibility/package' and
> >     `compatibility/mpair', including the documentation changes (but
> >     maybe add back some text to discourage misuse of these libraries).
> > 
> >  2. Leave things as they are, but move the sections that document
> >     `racket/package' and `racket/mpair' out of the Reference and into
> >     the same "Compatibility" document that describes
> >     `compatibility/package' and `compatibility/mpair'.
> 
> I'll go with the second one. I think it makes it clearer that these
> features are not Rackety.

-1 for leaving `package' there -- as questionable as its utility might
be, I don't think that there was ever any use of it that fell under a
"compatibility" category.  (OTOH, I have at least one use of it that
is definitely not compatibility.)

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