On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > Yesterday, Greg Hendershott wrote: >> >> It's not just you. I've accumulated versions of Racket for OS X that >> I've kept "just in case" whenever I install a new version: 5.2.1, >> 5.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.5. None have a meta subdir under collects. > > Yes, the meta collection was never intended to be distributed. The > plan for the shell completions was to have a way to put the files in a > proper place, and move them to a non-meta collection. Both have > already happened in the git head. > > > Yesterday, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Vlad Kozin <vladilen.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Docs say: >> > >> > > The "meta" collection is only available in the Racket Full distribution >> > >> > What's Racket Full distribution? >> >> The "Full" distribution includes everything in the repository, >> including tests and libraries that weren't widely used. It's a >> concept that's going away with the new package system. > > It shouldn't really go away. The thing is that some packages are > things that people will rarely want, like the web page sources, or > specific server sources.
They aren't going away in the sense of being un-installable, but now they're all individually installable as packages. >> It appears the it's no longer available on the release page -- Eli, >> do you know what happened there? > > It was never a download -- it only existed on pre.racket-lang.org . Are you sure? I'm confident that I've downloaded some full distributions. >> I think it was probably a mistake to have the shell completion >> scripts only in the Full distribution, but since we've re-organized >> the distribution it won't be a problem in the future.. > > It wasn't a mistake since the main point of moving them into a > non-meta is to have some way of putting the files in the proper > place. Without that, all you'd get is a directory with some files > that you'll need to know how you wire into your shell. Assuming that > you know how to do that, you can just get the files and do so: I think we're actually agreeing here. `meta` is not the right place for shell completion code. Sam ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users