[racket-dev] PLaneT(2): Single vs multi-collection packages

> If info.rkt does not exist, it creates it and gives the 'collection-name
> > the name of the package by default.
>
> That doesn't seem like a good idea to me. As you've noted, there can be
> problems with writing extra files. The collection name could be instead
> computed in `pkg-single-collection', which would treat the absence of
> an "info.rkt" to mean single-collection mode, right?
>
>
> Some calls to `pkg-single-collection' would need to change to pass in
> a package name to use instead of the `dir' name, since the `dir'
> argument is sometimes a temporary directory that is used to stage a
> package. That's an easy change.
>

If the original package/directory name can be retrieved at any time, then
yes, it's a much better idea (actually I had started this way, but didn't
know how to retrieve the name at any time).

Laurent
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