[racket-dev] release notes draft

I think this is reasonably short for a 3x release cycle.

Robby


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

>
> -- 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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