20 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > > > On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Matthias Felleisen > >> <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>> Robby, could you share w/ us why you don't like the tool > >>> designation for the Optimization Coach and the Future > >>> Visualizer? Or if you can't articulate the dislike for 'tool', > >>> can you say what a better word is? > >> > >> - I think the creation of a tool collection at this point is not > >> great because there will be lots of tools that are not in it. > > > > Are you saying that because we already gave > 110 collects it is > > too late to do anything about the bushiness of the tree? That's > > kind of sad. > > It is very sad.
I don't think that this is sad wrt the current issue, since it's a new toy. Also, the possibly sad point is about the difficulty of moving things around given that there is already code that refers to their current locations -- but that's not at all specific to our source tree. > Relatedly, sticking these two together under the name "tool" does > not really help unless you have a plan to stick more there. Having > two different, half-followed conventions is worse than one bad > convention. +1 -- since it's unclear how many of these things will pop up and how well they'd fit any label, it makes another point for going with a new collection and be done with it. (But this is a minor point, of course.) > >> - "tool" has often been a synonym for "drracket plugin" and the > >> future visualizer is not a drracket plugin. (This is probably a confusion that I contributed to, assuming that it was a drr tool.) -- ((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