Yes, this curation system is already partially in place. When you go to the main catalog, you'll see that each package has a 'ring' number where 0 = trusted, 1 = non conflicting, 2 = unknown. I have not yet set up continuous integration of ring 0, but I will soon. Also, I haven't got the documentation for this written.
Jay On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > One thing perhaps worth mentioning, tho, is that there will be a curated > package source where we will make significant efforts to avoid "accidental" > bugs like this, by automatically running test suites, etc. Something much > like the process that we use for Racket's git (except that in the case of > Racket's git, the commits go in and *then* the tests run, not the other way > around). > > Robby > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >> > [Jay will have to correct me if I have any part of this wrong...] >> >> Nope, it was beautiful. >> >> > At Thu, 2 May 2013 11:31:09 +0200, Laurent wrote: >> > As an aside, the `raco pkg update' action is not restricted to packages >> > installed by package name; it also works with GutHub sources. If you >> > install via >> > >> > raco pkg install github://github.com/U/X/master >> > >> > then `raco pkg update' fetches the HEAD commit from GitHub. Again, that >> > install or update doesn't interact with the catalog. But it doesn't also >> > help if the repository's HEAD commit is buggy. >> >> One little note, the part of this URL 'master' can refer to any branch >> or tag. You could ask the developers to create a tag/branch for the >> correct commit. Or you could fork their repository and then revert the >> offending commit yourself (or create a tag, etc.) That's yet another >> solution to the problem. >> >> Jay >> >> -- >> Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay >> >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users