On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:47 PM Sage Gerard <s...@sagegerard.com> wrote:
> April 9th in the #general Slack channel taught me that there was no clean > way to > release a breaking change in a package. I'm open to working on version > pinning > support in raco pkg provided that a maintainer can walk me through some > code. > > In the meantime, as much as I appreciate the efforts made in the current > system, > I'm considering stopping my contributions to the package catalog until > further notice. > I'm open to submitting packages if I am confident in their longevity, but > I don't want > to end up in the position I've been in for the last few weeks when > planning a release. > That position being an inability to release an edition that is not in some > way "aware" > of a prior edition. In my view, changing the package/collection name is an > example of that problem, not a solution to it. > > I'm considering asking my users to specify different package sources in > their info.rkt > files when dealing with my work. Before I commit to that decision, I > wanted to tap into > those of you who have already been here. How have you handled breaking > changes > for your projects? How have you communicated with your users to make sure > they > were adequately prepared? Am I being too black-and-white about this? > > *~slg* > +1 on this. I'm having the same issue. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/3tKIr3GrU9Jnl7V-5yzb52OL3mjt8XNe9F_Qv9HDKwy8xC4j9lQo2e5eGSle4ZFHAee_FiGVhr15lXoovUE6yqoARP-ZNi3kXXz8ETXdufg%3D%40sagegerard.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/3tKIr3GrU9Jnl7V-5yzb52OL3mjt8XNe9F_Qv9HDKwy8xC4j9lQo2e5eGSle4ZFHAee_FiGVhr15lXoovUE6yqoARP-ZNi3kXXz8ETXdufg%3D%40sagegerard.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAE8gKod5udG7pkEcg0yEvDfHuVLXswmDb2jLjG6uWmdvvq9thQ%40mail.gmail.com.
