At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:43:13 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > > At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:02:28 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > > > But when you run `raco pkg install' or `raco pkg update', then the > > package details are not necessarily determined by > > "pkg.racket-lang.org". The package might be downloaded as pre-built > > from someplace suitable to your specific installation. > > > > The term "package catalog" is used in the quoted text above to the > > refer to the server that `raco pkg install' consults first. The (very) > > speculative part is that the "Racket" and "Minimal Racket" > > installations might check different places first. But both kinds of > > installation would definitely include "pkg.racket-lang.org" in the set > > of catalogs that they check. > > Ok, that makes sense. Which packages are you imagining would be > served from this catalog? Just the ones currently in the Racket > distribution? Everything that's in "ring 0" on pkg.racket-lang.org? > Some other set?
Ring 0 (for PLT's distribution). > >> Finally, can you say anything about whether you anticipate the release > >> process changing? Would it be possible to decouple the core Racket > >> releases from, say, the Typed Racket releases, with a release of the > >> whole system bundling specific versions of everything? > > > > I expect that we'll want to do that, but I'm not sure it will work well > > for all users. The idea behind the "Racket" versus "Minimal Racket" > > package-catalog speculation was that people might opt into decoupled > > releases by using the "Minimal Racket" distribution. > > Just to be sure we're on the same page here, I'm thinking of something > like Gnome or the Haskell Platform, where there is a big release which > is what most people install containing lots of little packages. Which > users do you think this might not work for, and why? Well, I'm not sure. My sense is that updates to main-distribution packages could create trouble for novice users. Maybe that's not the case, or maybe it will be the case only until we get our package infrastructure refined. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
