I think the success of MELPA and the communities around popular packages refutes the notion that lisp programmers prefer solo hacking.
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I really like the MELPA model of packaging directly from git. It solves the problem of forgetting to release something -- just merge a PR and you're done.
It also makes version number bumps much less important.
I really like the MELPA model of packaging directly from git. It solves the problem of forgetting to release something -- just merge a PR and you're done.
It also makes version number bumps much less important.
You could go even further in a statically typed language and also figure out when breaking changes occur.
My fix for shut-up is now on MELPA stable! It's also a fun example of how painful bugs need long commit messages, even if the the change itself is small.
https://github.com/cask/shut-up/commit/081d6b01e3ba0e60326558e545c4019219e046ce