'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote on 12/10/2015 01:04 PM:
However, it could easily be the case that a package (presumably from Neil Van Dyke) could contain code that would be installed into the html subdirectory of the sxml collection, and I’m guessing that’s what you’re referring to.
Though that's technically possible, I'd strongly prefer that that not happen in practice for third-party packages, and at least it's not something that I'd likely ever do with my packages.
For decentralized third-party reusable component development, taxonomies generally do not get coded in package names themselves. It's much less flexible, and easier to mess up in a counterproductive way (even when centralized, but especially when decentralized).
And it would be simpler (and also facilitate multiple-version support someday), if packages just kept their files compartmentalized to their own installation directory. So I'd discourage third-party package developers using the power of the new package system to sprinkle their package's files in arbitrary other locations, except when one has a really-really good reason.
It appears to me that, for instance, Neil’s html-parsing library is not currently available in package form. (ObResearch: quick search for 'neil@ne' through pkgs.)
Correct, my `html-parsing` package is still maintained in PLaneT, and I have not yet moved it to the new package system. I do intend to move my packages to the new package system, but I've put nothing in the new package system catalog yet.
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