Just now, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> The problem with that is that there is no way to ensure that there
> is only one package named "data/red-black-tree"
There's no need to ensure such a thing -- and IIUC, the current system
doesn't do that neither modulo a bunch of blessed packages.
> and there can
The problem with that is that there is no way to ensure that there is
only one package named "data/red-black-tree" and there can be two
mutually incompatible universes of packages for Carl's rbts and mine,
for instance. Furthermore, it has the internal linking problem.
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:11
Yesterday, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> Planet attempts to solve this problem technically by (a) having all
> collections be prefixed by / and (b) mandating
> a centralized server that enforces unique s and unique
> s per author. Since Racket packages don't have a
> mandated central server we can't enforc
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> It seems to me our new package system runs into trouble if two people write
> packages that use the same connection name. Let's say we have two packages,
> alice-tree and bob-tree, both of which provide the collection
> data/red-black-tree,
It seems to me our new package system runs into trouble if two people write
packages that use the same connection name. Let's say we have two
packages, alice-tree and bob-tree, both of which provide the collection
data/red-black-tree, but both provide different interfaces (perhaps similar
function
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