Subject: [bug#46865] [PATCH] gnu: racket: update to 8.0.

From: Jack Hill <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 11:06:35 -0500 (EST)

Philip,

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, Philip McGrath wrote:

> The Racket fork of Chez Scheme has diverged significantly from upstream.

[…]

> [1]: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp19-fddkmstz.pdf
> [2]: https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/pull/336
> [3]: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/pldi20-fd.pdf
> [4]: https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/3710
> [5]: https://github.com/mflatt/racket/commit/7319a22ed605fb3110b98f6c9aa1e8ed3aa03794

Thanks for pulling all this information together and writing a nice 
summer. It definitely helped me better understand what was going on with 
Racket CS. I'm excited to hear about that possibility of a full-source 
bootstrap as well.

Thanks!
Jack