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

Thanks. 

We will add an explicit section on beta-elements of the release,
and the message should encourage people to try the package system. 

-- Matthias







On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> 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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