[racket-dev] [plt] Push #24958: master branch updated

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 11 08:17:38 EDT 2012

Uncle.

Robby

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I think the tool should be outside of the "racket" collection, too, and
> a "future-visualizer" collection sounds right to me.
>
> At Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:33:02 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>> An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>> > >> It is the future visualizer so I thought it belonged with the
>> > >> visualizer. No?
>> > >
>> > > (You mean "... belonged with the futures", right?)
>> >
>> > Right. :)
>> >
>> > >> Alternative suggestions welcome.
>> > >
>> > > I think that it fits well with other meta-analysis kind of tools like
>> > > errortrace and the profiler, so a new toplevel collection seems to
>> > > make perfect sense.  I don't have a concrete suggestion better than
>> > > "future-visualizer" though since I don't know what it does exactly.
>> > > Maybe "future-debugger" or "future-tracker" or something like that?
>> >
>> > I think we have too many top-level collections and making a new one,
>> > especially with "future-" in the name seems like a step in the wrong
>> > direction.
>>
>> If more tools will be there, then it could be "futute/something"...
>> Or maybe add a new "tools" collection for other similar things?
>> But in any case, having a new toplevel collection seems much less of a
>> problem than having a tool in racket/*.
>>
>> > ("visualizer" is a better word than "debugger" or "tracker" for what
>> > it does, IMO, altho it has elements of those. But if you read the docs
>> > in the Guide about it, you should get some idea what it does.)
>>
>> An hour and a half ago, James Swaine wrote:
>> >
>> > Agreed, "debugger" and "tracker" don't really adequately describe
>> > it.  Maybe "future-profiler" is another option, but maybe confusing
>> > since we already have "profiler".  (But I still think "visualizer"
>> > is best, IMHO).
>>
>> (I did say that I don't know what it's doing so I was blindly
>> guessing...)
>>
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