[racket-dev] release 5.3.5

What a pity, I did not know this book before.
I've been translating the source code of Land of Lisp using the racket way.
I just finish the Grand Theft Wumpus game.


On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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