[racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

The system you are describing is Planet 1. We have it, it isn't
necessarily going away. But for many users (such as Carl) it is too
expensive to have all these options and we'd like something similar.
Planet 2 is based primarily on Linux package systems, like deb/apt,
rpm, pacman, etc that lack almost all the features you describe but
have been very successful at fostering wide communities.

Jay

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Tobias Hammer <tobias.hammer at dlr.de> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: What are your / the teams objections against some
> kind of real versioning system that allows to
>
> * specify a version number without creating a new package
> * specify dependencies based on minimal version
> * keep/pin a package at some particular version (maybe your code
>   depends on an exact, even buggy behavior)
> * keep directory and file names between incompatible versions
>   without getting banned from solar
>
> What made me also wonder when i read the docs is, why is it allowed to
> have packets that have the same directories as the core racket distribution?
>
> Tobias
>
>
>
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:16:58 +0100, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Now that the 5.3.1 release is finished, I've just pushed the beta release
>> of Planet 2 to the Racket core.
>>
>> I've tried to answer all questions and explain everything about Planet 2
>> in
>> the documentation, which I've uploaded a copy of here:
>>
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay/tmp/20121108-pkgs/planet2/index.html
>>
>> In particular, it explains what the plan is to go from this beta release
>> to
>> the final release.
>>
>> If you currently have packages on Planet 1, I am excited to help you make
>> the transition to Planet 2. (I am currently in the process of converting
>> my
>> packages.) Please do not hesitate to let me know how I can help.
>>
>> This represents the third iteration of the design of Planet 2. (The first
>> was worked on from August 10, 2010 to March 11, 2011. The second in July
>> 2011. The third from August 2011 until now, although coding didn't begin
>> until December 2011.)
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> p.s. In the implementation, I'm particularly proud of the little language
>> for defining command-line interfaces with matching functions (see
>> planet2/main.rkt for a use) and the testing infrastructure that allows you
>> to run sequences of shell commands and check their output (see
>> tests/planet2/tests-install.rkt for a nice example.)



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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

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