<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Norman Gray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:norman@astro.gla.ac.uk" target="_blank">norman@astro.gla.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> Greetings.<br> <div class="im"><br> On 2013 Aug 30, at 17:01, Konrad Hinsen <<a href="mailto:konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net">konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > One possible development could be that the de-facto standard for<br> > Racket packages becomes development on Github, with people installing<br> > from specific Github commits rather then going through any of the<br> > catalogs, for better version control. That may well be a good enough<br> > solution.<br> <br> </div>I don't think that would necessarily be optimal, to the extent that it would couple Racket packages to github. I've nothing against github (it's the good thing about git), but... other version control systems do exist.<br> <br> Money where mouth is time: supposing that the next package I release will be after the package manager system has become finalised, I will probably feel obliged to offer patches to the package manager system, to support retrieving packages from Mercurial/bitbucket.<br> <br> Would such patches be welcome, or is there in fact a plan/expectation/resignation to couple Racket to github?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They would be very welcome. Github is especially convenient because of the API and ability to get zips for every commit/branch/tag. A lot of us use it, so it was natural to implement first.</div> <div><br></div><div>Jay</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> All the best,<br> <br> Norman<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> Norman Gray : <a href="http://nxg.me.uk" target="_blank">http://nxg.me.uk</a><br> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK<br> </font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> <br> ____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">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 </div></div>