Re: [racket-dev] CPANTS

2011-09-09 Thread Michael W
Why not make it a button? "A problem appears! [Click here] to send details of this problem to the package developers." 6 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > John Clements wrote at 09/09/2011 04:00 PM: > > On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > > >> I'm not familiar with CPANTS, but

Re: [racket-dev] CPANTS

2011-09-09 Thread Neil Van Dyke
John Clements wrote at 09/09/2011 04:00 PM: On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: I'm not familiar with CPANTS, but automating real-world feedback something like that sounds useful. I think you should be conscientious about the tiny "phoning back to the mothership with more inf

Re: [racket-dev] CPANTS

2011-09-09 Thread John Clements
On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > I'm not familiar with CPANTS, but automating real-world feedback something > like that sounds useful. > > I think you should be conscientious about the tiny "phoning back to the > mothership with more info" privacy problem, and how best to ma

Re: [racket-dev] CPANTS

2011-09-09 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I'm not familiar with CPANTS, but automating real-world feedback something like that sounds useful. I think you should be conscientious about the tiny "phoning back to the mothership with more info" privacy problem, and how best to manage that, even if it's just real disclosure (not "privacy p

Re: [racket-dev] CPANTS

2011-09-09 Thread Robby Findler
I would love to see something like that be a part of planet (presumably 2.0). I had lots of similar ideas for 1.0, but never was able to get going significantly on them. FWIW. Robby On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Do you know about CPANTS?  I just heard about it.  

[racket-dev] CPANTS

2011-09-09 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
Do you know about CPANTS? I just heard about it. The idea, as I understand it, translated to our terms, is essentially this: - every PLaneT package comes with a test suite - when the package is downloaded, the test suite runs - if the test suite fails, the user is informed right away (to perhaps