<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px">> "Typed Racket" is not valid because it contains a space.</span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px"><br>
</span></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px">Let me rephrase the question.</span></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px"><br>
</span></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px">A package has a two names. One is used informally among people to refer to a package. This could be Typed-Racket. The other is the name used in the</span></font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px">package system this could be </span></font>typed-racket. </div><div style><br></div><div style>Is it clear from the context which one is meant?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>/Jens Axel</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/7 Jay McCarthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard <<a href="mailto:jensaxel@soegaard.net">jensaxel@soegaard.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Let's say I want to submit Typed Racket as a package.<br>
> Is the package name "Typed Racket" or typed-racket ?<br>
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</div>"Typed Racket" is not valid because it contains a space.<br>
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> I just got a 503 from <a href="http://pkg.racket-lang.org" target="_blank">pkg.racket-lang.org</a>, so I check whether<br>
> it is clear from the context what is meant.<br>
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</div>I just fixed it<br>
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> 2013/4/6 Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>><br>
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>> I just tried clicking thru this too and I think just putting "Package<br>
>> Name" near the top where it says "Name" is a suitable fix.<br>
>><br>
>> Robby<br>
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>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> After having clicked on a link that says "Contribute a Package", I<br>
>>> don't think it is unreasonable to think that a user would know they<br>
>>> had to give the information about the package, including fundamental<br>
>>> information like its name.<br>
>>><br>
>>> If you still disagree, I think it would be easy to submit a patch:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/meta/pkg-index/official/main.rkt#L606" target="_blank">https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/meta/pkg-index/official/main.rkt#L606</a><br>
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>>> If you'd like, I can make the patch myself, but I think it may be more<br>
>>> productive to figure out the deeper reason why it is hard to tell that<br>
>>> "Contribute a Package" goes to a package information form and fix<br>
>>> that, rather than just changing a text string.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Jay<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <<a href="mailto:tonyg@ccs.neu.edu">tonyg@ccs.neu.edu</a>><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>> > I just tried to register a package with <a href="http://pkg.racket-lang.org" target="_blank">pkg.racket-lang.org</a>. First I<br>
>>> > registered an account, by typing in an email address and fresh<br>
>>> > password.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > The next step was a webpage prompting me for "Name" and some other<br>
>>> > fields. I didn't realise it was asking me for the *package* name, and<br>
>>> > thought it was looking for *my* name! Fortunately, it rejected the<br>
>>> > package name "Tony Garnock-Jones" because it had a hyphen in it.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > It took me until I was ready to post an angry message pointing at<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > <a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/" target="_blank">http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/</a><br>
>>> > to finally realise it wanted me to type the *package* name.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > I think the form should have the field label "Name" replaced with<br>
>>> > "Package Name", to make life easier for klutzes like myself :-)<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Regards,<br>
>>> > Tony<br>
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>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>><br>
>>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University<br>
>>> <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93<br>
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> Jens Axel Søgaard<br>
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Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>><br>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University<br>
<a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a><br>
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"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>-- <br>Jens Axel Søgaard<br><br>
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