[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1

On 01/23/2012 09:07 PM, Neil Toronto wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 08:04 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
>> On 01/23/2012 06:30 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>
>>> * DrRacket now has a new slate of icons
>>>
>>> The other seem too minor (and the second one is questionable; I think
>>> everyone will appreciate them, but few will download because of that,
>>> I guess).
>>
>> I expect Neil will elaborate on the new library that produced them, and
>> "DrRacket uses them" can be attached to that item.
>
> If we're announcing it, this could work:
>
> * A new `images' library produces ray-traced icons and logos, and
> provides macros to embed these and other computed bitmaps into compiled
> programs. DrRacket is the first major consumer.
>
> When I make the rendering API public - which includes the ray tracer,
> pict-like combiners for two-and-a-half-dimensional bitmaps, and fast
> image processing primitives, all in Typed Racket - there will be more to
> say. Do we want to wait to announce `images' until then?

I thought it was already public. If not, maybe we should drop this item.

Ryan