[racket-dev] release 5.3.5

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The problem is that the book has "collects/realm" printed in it and
was designed simultaneously with the package system, so it wasn't
clear to make it a package, how to describe getting it, etc.

Jay

> 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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