naming convention for old crufty packages with valuable names
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Neil Van Dyke
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Feb 29, 2016, 10:52:38 PM2/29/16
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FYI, given the single namespace of all Racket package names, I was
trying to figure out to what to do with old Scheme packages that were
still in use, but which had names that I didn't want to waste on archaic
APIs. I ended up just appending "-old" to the old package name.
BTW, I don't see a mechanism/process for keeping people from stomping
over particularly important package names (like "rfc<number>" or
"object"), with poor-quality interfaces/implementations.
Neil V.
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