[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.1

Plumbers look like a fundamental new runtime system concept, and so I think
we should mention them, even though most people won't use them.

Sam
On Jul 29, 2014 4:02 AM, "Matthew Flatt" <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:33:07 -0400, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> > mflatt:
> > - ARM JIT: fix software floating-point (ffb0dd52)
> > - add plumbers (d5b42f8c)
> > - raco make: improve parallelism (9e3b9844)
> > - deprecate 3-arg module name resolver calls (8aaa3fc5)
> > - win32: support symbolic links (3e3cb716, 9fed5b58)
> > - drawing, bounding boxes, picts, scribble
> >    (970b040d, 37af1c8e, c4a58dc4, 05760a12, dac8ba28)
>
> These seem too minor to mention in a release announcement. (FWIW, I
> think the first one was included in 6.0.1.)
>
> Possibly, it's worth noting the upgraded native libraries on Windows
> and Mac OS X:
>
>  * Upgraded and normalized versions of graphics libraries and
>    dependencies (Pango, Cairo, GLib, etc.) that are bundled with Racket
>    on Windows and Mac OS X. For example, FreeType support is
>    consistently enabled.
>
> Like Robby's bullets, though, feel free to leave that one out.
>
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