I think the tool should be outside of the "racket" collection, too, and a "future-visualizer" collection sounds right to me.
At Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:33:02 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > > > > > > 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: > > >> It is the future visualizer so I thought it belonged with the > > >> visualizer. No? > > > > > > (You mean "... belonged with the futures", right?) > > > > Right. :) > > > > >> Alternative suggestions welcome. > > > > > > I think that it fits well with other meta-analysis kind of tools like > > > errortrace and the profiler, so a new toplevel collection seems to > > > make perfect sense. I don't have a concrete suggestion better than > > > "future-visualizer" though since I don't know what it does exactly. > > > Maybe "future-debugger" or "future-tracker" or something like that? > > > > I think we have too many top-level collections and making a new one, > > especially with "future-" in the name seems like a step in the wrong > > direction. > > If more tools will be there, then it could be "futute/something"... > Or maybe add a new "tools" collection for other similar things? > But in any case, having a new toplevel collection seems much less of a > problem than having a tool in racket/*. > > > ("visualizer" is a better word than "debugger" or "tracker" for what > > it does, IMO, altho it has elements of those. But if you read the docs > > in the Guide about it, you should get some idea what it does.) > > An hour and a half ago, James Swaine wrote: > > > > Agreed, "debugger" and "tracker" don't really adequately describe > > it. Maybe "future-profiler" is another option, but maybe confusing > > since we already have "profiler". (But I still think "visualizer" > > is best, IMHO). > > (I did say that I don't know what it's doing so I was blindly > guessing...) > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev