This is on the long term list in the docs. Jay
Sent from my iPhone On 2012/11/08, at 17:59, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: Perhaps we want a GUI Planet2 installation tool? And options for auto-install from DrRacket to be silent, confirm/cancel, or auto-fail? That would give us the range from full manual control to automatic "Something Good happens", all without command lines. Carl Eastlund On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > I think it is important that you can get a program from the web, put > it into DrRacket, hit run, and get Something Good to happen, without > having to go type at command lines and whatnot. (This is especially > true for Windows, the platform something like 95% of our users use.) > > Robby > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: > > > > [replying just to a few of these] > > > >>> * I think we should drop the `.plt` archive format entirely. > >> > >> It is the default because Racket can create it and unarchive it > >> natively. If someone implements a native Racket zipper/unzipper, that > >> would be great. My understanding is that this is on Eli's todo list > >> and when it is done, it would be great to change Planet 2's default. > > > > Hopefully this can happen before Planet 2's release, so it wouldn't > > need to support .plt at all. > > > >>> * It would be nice to have fewer special files. For example, > >>> `MANIFEST` could be abolished by just fetching the whole content of > >>> the directory. Checksums could be included in the `METADATA` file. > >> > >> The manifest is necessary because there's no reliable way to get a > >> directory list from a Web site. > > > > Then I would just suggest dropping the web-directory fetching instead, > > and just support archives at URLs. > > > >>> * In section 3.1, you should have 'git push -u origin master'. > >> > >> This is directly from the Github docs: > >> https://help.github.com/articles/create-a-repo > > > > If you create a fresh repo on GH, you get instructions with the `-u` > > option -- I'm surprised that they haven't updated the help site. > > > >>> * I thought the conclusion of a recent discussion on dev@ was that > >>> tests, typed, etc sub-collections *are* preferred. > >> > >> I think I missed this conversation. I don't understand the conclusion > >> given that we don't want to always distribute tests, for example. > > > > This discussion was here: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/2012-October/010507.html > > > > I'm not sure there was a definitive conclusion, but Robby/Eli/Matthias > > seems to be on the sub-collection side. > > > >>> * Can the Planet1 compatibility also have a version-less translation > >>> for the latest version, so that `jaymccarthy/opencl/module` could keep > >>> working? > >> > >> I don't want that version-less one to conflict with any of the other > >> ones so that Planet 1 packages that rely on multiple versions will > >> work. Am I missing a part of the request? > > > > I'm just suggesting that `../opencl` and `.../opencl1` should both exist. > > > >>> * I think the auto-installing module resolver mentioned in "Short > >>> Term" is a bad idea -- it's already really easy to install packages > >>> with this system, and auto-installation just introduces possibility > >>> for headaches. > >> > >> I don't think it is *bad* idea, but I also don't think it is > >> *necessary*. But there are other people in the Racket group who think > >> this is totally necessary for Planet 2. I'll let them explain why. > > > > I'll look forward to that explanation. > > -- > > sam th > > sa...@ccs.neu.edu > > _________________________ > > Racket Developers list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > > _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
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