[racket-dev] proposal for moving to packages: repository

At Fri, 24 May 2013 03:26:45 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> If that can be done reliabely, then of course it makes it possible to
> do the split reliabley after the first restructure.

Great! Let's do that, because I remain convinced that it's going to be
a lot easier.


> * Also, I'd worry about file movements on top of paths that existed
>   under a different final path at some point

I believe the file-lifetime computation in "slice.rkt" takes care of that.

> * The script should also take care to deal with files that got removed
>   in the past.

Ditto.

> * Actually, given the huge amount of time it's running (see next
>   bullet), it's probably best to make it do the movements from all
>   paths at the same time.

There's no need to move anything while extracting a repository slice;
the movements happen before.

> * It's not clear to me what you want to do at this point, [...]
>   Alternatively, do the first restructure with in-repo moves instead,

Yes, that's what I suggested.