[racket-dev] Release for v5.3.2 has begun

We can't actually remove the package system, but we can leave it as
"beta" in v5.3.2 --- and in that case, v5.3.2 becomes the broader test
process for the package system.

At Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:31:52 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> I know it is probably too late for that but can we release this one as 5.3.2 
> w/o the package system and do so quickly? 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> >> At Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:51:03 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Please tell me if you think that this release is significant enough
> >>>> that it should be announced on the users list for wider testing.
> >>> 
> >>> I think the new package system (yay Jay!) is significant enough that
> >>> it should get wide testing, and that it merits the release number 5.4.
> >> 
> >> +1 on v5.4.
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure about wider testing, because I think it will take time to
> >> build up enough packages to make testing interesting.
> > 
> > I think some wider testing can still be useful.  For example, does
> > sytem-wide/installation-wide/user-specific package installation work
> > on all flavors of Windows/Linux/OSX that we support.
> > 
> > Another issue, which perhaps Jay has more insight into -- are we
> > planning to move the PNS to racket-lang.org prior to the release?
> > 
> > Sam
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