[racket-dev] Official PLaneT account?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 20 08:26:42 EDT 2012

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote at 07/20/2012 07:44 AM:
>
>>> Shouldn't everyone try to eat PLaneT brand dog food?  (Not subsist off of
>>> Git brand dog treats.)
>>>
>>
>> Whether or not that's the case in general, in 5.2.1 you can do:
>>
>>     (require combinator-parser)
>>
>> which can't be replicated with a PLaneT package, but can be replicated
>> with a library set up with `raco link`, so this may be more useful for
>> existing users of this now-deprecated code.
>>
>
>
> In the August release, should collection links support PLaneT versions
> (whether coming from PLaneT server or PLaneT dev links)?  (I don't know the
> answer; I don't know the philosophy of how these links are supposed to fit
> with PLaneT.)

Collection links operate like any other collection (from the `require`
perspective; how they're found is different).  So I'm not sure what it
would mean to "support PLaneT versions".
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu

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