At Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:06 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>] > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour > <stamo...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > > > These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. > > > > Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, > > I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous > > release notes discussion, Jay and Neil had some bullets that I don't see > > on this list. There also were a lot more things in Robby's original > > email. > > > > > I spoke with Neil privately about the changes and got some agreement and my > list was not intended as a list of things that were all to be included. > > I probably just made a mistake: would you mind helping me fix it? A > candidate bullet would be great!
A few from your original list, in no particular order: * The `gen:set' generic interface extends set operations to work on user-defined types that implement set methods, as well as on other set-like built-in types, such as lists. * Picts can now be converted to the svg format. * Racket now provides desktop entries (.desktop files) for its graphical executables. * The documentation now includes a style guide: "How to Program Racket". * DrRacket now provides support for color schemes. > > If we want to keep the announcement itself short, should we point to the > > various HISTORY.txt files where users can get more details? > > > > > I'm happy to do this too, but less excited about it, especially since we've > now got a much better mechanism that we can use in the next release and > we've not done this past releases. No problem. With the bullets above, I think we have enough. Vincent _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev