[racket] deprecating planet version using para. in planet description?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 6 09:10:10 EST 2013

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking of which, if you want a package to support Racket 5.3.5 and
> 5.3.6, as well as 6, it's not very difficult. I blogged about it.[1]
> The tl;dr is:
>
> 1. Use #lang setup/infotab (not #lang info).
> 2. Use (define collection 'multi) and do the subdir thang.
> 3. Use (name version) not #:version.
> 4. List on pkg.racket-lang.org using
> github://github.com/<user>/<repo>/<rev>[/<path>] (not the new git:
> form).
>
> If you do these, users of 5.3.5/.6 can use your package. Otherwise they can't.


Greg, would you be willing to write up your instructions for this as
part of the package system documentation?

Sam

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