On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:47 PM Sage Gerard <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAE8gKod5udG7pkEcg0yEvDfHuVLXswmDb2jLjG6uWmdvvq9thQ%40mail.gmail.com.
