[racket-dev] release notes draft

-- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) 
-- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to longer on-line announcements? 
	



On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> Thanks!
> 
> I didn't include the DrRacket one, since I have more plans for that and would like to hold off announcing it until I get those things done (notably better some color-blindness color schemes, but also other tweaks to make color schemes just work better in general).
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> At Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:06 -0600,
> Robby Findler wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> > 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!
> 
> A few from your original list, in no particular order:
> 
> * The `gen:set' generic interface extends set operations to work on
>   user-defined types that implement set methods, as well as on other
>   set-like built-in types, such as lists.
> 
> * Picts can now be converted to the svg format.
> 
> * Racket now provides desktop entries (.desktop files) for its graphical
>   executables.
> 
> * The documentation now includes a style guide: "How to Program Racket".
> 
> * DrRacket now provides support for color schemes.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> No problem. With the bullets above, I think we have enough.
> 
> Vincent
> 
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