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

At Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:38:03 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > Did you consider moving "#lang mzscheme" out as well?
> 
> I've now created another pull request that does this, here:
> https://github.com/plt/racket/pull/377
> 
> There's one remaining question.  The `make-base-namespace` procedure
> provided by `mzscheme` attaches the `mzscheme` module.  But this pull
> request removes that module, so it can't be attached or required in
> this code.  The alternatives are:
> 
> 1. Just attach/require `scheme/mzscheme`.  Slightly incompatible in
> some corner cases.
> 2. Don't remove `mzscheme` from the core.
> 3. Remove `make*-namespace` from `scheme/mzscheme` and implement them
> in the `mzscheme` collection in the `mzscheme` package.
> 
> I'm currently leaning toward 3 but I'd appreciate anyone else's thoughts.

Is there some reason that `scheme/mzscheme' can't move to the
"mzscheme" package (along with `racket/private/stxmz-body')?