On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 06:12:55AM -0700, Jesse Alama wrote: > On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 2:57:45 PM UTC+2, Jay McCarthy wrote: > > > > > > This is simply a social standard though. There is nothing that > > technically prevents you from breaking compatibility, except that your > > users may be upset. You can post things on the package server that > > follows any rules you want, including conflicting with any other > > packages. > > > > I'd like to second this point. There's nothing stopping you from pushing > whatever you want to your repo, and hence distributing whatever you want > via the package server. I've pushed breaking changes to my packages before, > and no one has complained, so I guess I didn't break any part of the > interface that they were using. (Or I have no users of my stuff at all, > which is certainly possible!) > > I don't know how many packages mention, in their description, that they're > experimental, explicitly warning me that the interface is unstable and > likely to change. I use 'em anyway because they offer useful functionality. > I don't recall being nailed by breaking changes, but perhaps I'm just > getting lucky. > > What exactly is the claim, anyway, about the package server not allowing > breaking changes? Is it that if you do a breaking change to your package, > then it's possible that other people's packages correspondingly break? If > so, then I think that's not a very interesting claim. Does the claim at > issue just amount to a restatement of the ethos that Jay mentioned about > trying to ensure backwards compatibility for a long time? > > (All this said, I'd like to learn more about setting up custom package > catalogs, as Alex mentioned, to take matters even more into your own hands.)
Is there a mechanism for, when you know you are making a breaking change in a package, at least being warned about other packages that may break as a result? And is there a mechanism for testing those other packages before committing your breaking package to the public repository? -- hendrik > > -- > 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/04ebf61c-54b3-4f58-96aa-f5bdc5f2b457%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/20200501132344.4nwjgebdlyttwkzu%40topoi.pooq.com.
