I think this is reasonably short for a 3x release cycle. Robby
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > > -- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) > -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to > longer on-line announcements? > > > > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: > > > Thanks! > > > > I didn't include the DrRacket one, since I have more plans for that and > would like to hold off announcing it until I get those things done (notably > better some color-blindness color schemes, but also other tweaks to make > color schemes just work better in general). > > > > Robby > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamo...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: > > 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 > >
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