[racket-dev] Things we could move out of the core

Fundamental to me is Robby's "necessary to install packages". One day we may wish to offer sandboxing for the installation of packages. 









On Jun 26, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Carl Eastlund wrote:

> What does being "so fundamental" have to do with being in the core vs being in a package?  We should not confuse putting things in packages with making them second-class concepts.  We can put racket/sandbox in a package without necessarily making it any less fundamental to Racket.
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> Carl Eastlund
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> In general I agree with Robby on "the definition of the core as "minimum stuff to get pkgs running" and we should be picky about what goes in". BUT, as a small addendum, I think the idea of sandboxing is so fundamental, I'd rather see the idea (not necessarily the current implementation) become a part of the core.
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> -- Matthias
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