[racket-dev] Deprecating collects

On this front, this-expression-source-directory is, for nearly all
purposes, worse than define-runtime-path.

Robby

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> At Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:44:28 -0400,
> Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>> I'm still using some "mzlib" in *new* code.  Specifically, "getpid",
>> "this-expression-source-directory", "gethostname", and perhaps one or
>> two other things.  I could find other ways to do those things if I had
>> to, but those definitions pop up when I search, and there's no glaring
>> warning not to use them.
>
> Good point.
>
> We're looking through `mzlib''s bindings to find such functions that
> don't have equivalents elsewhere in the collects. We're planning to move
> these to appropriate libraries. For example, `gethostname' and `getpid'
> should probably go somewhere like `racket/os' (and probably be renamed
> to `get-hostname' and `get-pid').
>
> Vincent
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