[racket-dev] updated proposal for moving to packages

Could this accidentally interfere with release v.5.3.5? 
(That is, should we wait until this release is pushed out?)

Could your revised plan include instructions on how to build 
racket and friends from scratch? 

-- Matthias





On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> At Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:44:17 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> I think we have, roughly, two options:
>> 
>> 1. Something like the split Matthew's tree proposes.  In fact, I think
>> we need to split some things further, so that `gui-lib` doesn't depend
>> on scribble-related things.
>> 2. Something much, much more coarse-grained, such as the current split
>> between the 'textual', 'graphical', 'drracket', and 'full'
>> distributions. Note that even these don't really make sense because of
>> documentation build dependencies.
>> 
>> I think that 1 is the right choice.
>> 
>> I also think that continuing to develop in separate branches as
>> proposals is a mistake. It's very hard to understand what's going on
>> in the `pkg` version of the tree without using it -- I certainly
>> didn't. it's also very hard to construct working trees in this fashion
>> without anyone using the code. If we're going to make this transition
>> soon, we should do it now, and then reorganize packages as necessary.
> 
> I agree, and so I'll renew the proposal that we make the switch.
> 
> Could we switch with option 1 on, say, Tuesday?
> 
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