[racket] Planet2 questions

Yes, this curation system is already partially in place. When you go
to the main catalog, you'll see that each package has a 'ring' number
where 0 = trusted, 1 = non conflicting, 2 = unknown. I have not yet
set up continuous integration of ring 0, but I will soon. Also, I
haven't got the documentation for this written.

Jay

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> One thing perhaps worth mentioning, tho, is that there will be a curated
> package source where we will make significant efforts to avoid "accidental"
> bugs like this, by automatically running test suites, etc. Something much
> like the process that we use for Racket's git (except that in the case of
> Racket's git, the commits go in and *then* the tests run, not the other way
> around).
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > [Jay will have to correct me if I have any part of this wrong...]
>>
>> Nope, it was beautiful.
>>
>> > At Thu, 2 May 2013 11:31:09 +0200, Laurent wrote:
>> > As an aside, the `raco pkg update' action is not restricted to packages
>> > installed by package name; it also works with GutHub sources. If you
>> > install via
>> >
>> >  raco pkg install github://github.com/U/X/master
>> >
>> > then `raco pkg update' fetches the HEAD commit from GitHub. Again, that
>> > install or update doesn't interact with the catalog. But it doesn't also
>> > help if the repository's HEAD commit is buggy.
>>
>> One little note, the part of this URL 'master' can refer to any branch
>> or tag. You could ask the developers to create a tag/branch for the
>> correct commit. Or you could fork their repository and then revert the
>> offending commit yourself (or create a tag, etc.) That's yet another
>> solution to the problem.
>>
>> Jay
>>
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