[racket-dev] release 5.3.5

1. I'm really excited about the book, which I'll buy.

2. Issuing a release solely to ship code for a book:

  a. Seems unusual (to me), in general.

  b. Plus right now, message seems at odds with the new package
manager and plan to move away from shipping monolithic collects?

  Admittedly that plan isn't in effect yet. But code for a book is a
use case that today's package manager supports AFAICT. So why accrete
another collection, is the reaction.

p.s. I'm sharing an observation casually, not stating an objection angrily.



On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> We will release Racket v5.3.5 next week. The purpose of the
> release is to include the Realm of Racket collection with the
> v5.3.4 release, because the book is about to appear.
>
> The release will strictly be built from
>
> -- Racket v5.3.4
> -- collects/realm as currently found in git head
>
> We will __not__ make any other changes.
>
> Eli has worked out a process and will launch it asap. We will
> conduct a recursive diff of all .rkt files and we will run
> basic checks to ensure the integrity of the release bundle.
> If you're willing to help with these checks, please stay tuned.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> DRAFT RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT:
>
> Racket version 5.3.5 is now available from
>
>  http://racket-lang.org/
>
> This is a special-purpose release to match the arrival of
> "Realm of Racket" in bookstores. Racket v.5.3.5 adds a
> single collection
>
> collects/realm/
>
> to the v5.3.4 release. The new collection contains the source
> code that readers of Realm may wish to use for experiments.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Comments welcome. -- Matthias
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