[racket-dev] release notes draft

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short.
>
> Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May,
> I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous
> release notes discussion, Jay and Neil had some bullets that I don't see
> on this list. There also were a lot more things in Robby's original
> email.
>
>
I spoke with Neil privately about the changes and got some agreement and my
list was not intended as a list of things that were all to be included.

I probably just made a mistake: would you mind helping me fix it? A
candidate bullet would be great!


> If we want to keep the announcement itself short, should we point to the
> various HISTORY.txt files where users can get more details?
>
>
I'm happy to do this too, but less excited about it, especially since we've
now got a much better mechanism that we can use in the next release and
we've not done this past releases.

Robby


> Vincent
>
>
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> At Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:27:21 -0600,
> Robby Findler wrote:
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> > Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments?
> >
> > Robby
> >
> >
> >
> > Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available
> > packages. Please visit
> >
> >  http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/
> >
> > for an overview.
> >
> > Recent releases included the "beta" versions of the package system.
> > Racket version 6.0 incorporates many improvements suggested by these
> > preliminary experiences:
> >
> >  * A package is treated as a single collection by default, so it is even
> >    easier to use a Github repository as a package. Get started quickly:
> >      http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/getting-started.html
> >
> >  * DrRacket includes a new package manager GUI, which is also available
> >    as a stand-alone program via the "gui-pkg-manager" package.
> >
> >  * The main Racket distribution has been broken into about 200 packages.
> An
> >    installation starts with Minimal Racket and then adds these bundled
> > packages.
> >
> >    Alternatively, you may now install a Minimal Racket distribution ---
> >    which is about 1/10 the size of the main distribution --- and add only
> >    those packages that you need.
> >
> >  * Package installation supports pre-built packages that include
> >    compiled byte code and rendered documentation, meaning packages can be
> >    installed quickly when built versions are a available. All packages in
> >    the main distribution are available in pre-built form.
> >
> > Further improvements are in the works, including package documentation on
> > the package-catalog web site.
> >
> > COMPATIBILITY NOTE: PLaneT will remain in place for the foreseeable
> future,
> > but we expect all package work to shift to the new system.
> >
> > Beyond the package system, this release brings a number of other changes:
> >
> >  * Racket's HTML documentation has a new and improved look, thanks to
> >    Matthew Butterick.
> >
> >  * Racket's JIT compiler supports the ARM architecture.
> >
> >  * Racket supports the Mac's Retina display mode.
> >
> >  * The profiler provides a new mode that uses the errortrace library to
> >    produce fine-grained profiles.
> >
> >  * A new contract profiler reports how much time programs spend checking
> >    contracts, and which contracts are most expensive.
> >
> >  * The math/flonum library exports fast 105-bit precision operations.
> >
> >  * Check Syntax handles generated identifiers, especially those
> >    introduced by struct (e.g. field selectors) and Redex (e.g., e_1, e_2)
> >
> >  * 2htdp/batch-io includes functions for dealing with html/xml in files
> and
> >    web sites as X-expressions plus conveniences for web-based graph
> > traversals.
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