[plt-dev] Test failure

2009-10-28 Thread Eli Barzilay
Since ~2 days ago, the nightly builds report this failure in the mzscheme tests: Section(names) ERROR: define-struct: cannot redefine name: s -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!

Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

2009-10-28 Thread YC
That's exactly the problem that this patch try to solve though - the ability to finally add mirrors proxies. I wanted to work on a mirror solution before but grimaced at the prospect of having to hack this for each separate plt instance, so this is a catch-22 situation. Cheers, yc On Wed, Oct

Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

2009-10-28 Thread Jon Rafkind
Another use for this would be to have an isolated planet server so that companies can use some benefits of planet without letting their users leave the intranet. I dealt with this at $JEORB years ago. YC wrote: That's exactly the problem that this patch try to solve though - the ability to

Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

2009-10-28 Thread Carl Eastlund
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Another use for this would be to have an isolated planet server so that companies can use some benefits of planet without letting their users leave the intranet. I dealt with this at $JEORB years ago. Nice $JAERORB,

Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

2009-10-28 Thread Robby Findler
Sorry; I've not had time to look into this, and I didn't reply because I believe that there is some support for multiple sources of packages that Jacob already added into planet (eg, the way that it will get .plt files from a local cache when you're offline). Did you find that code when you looked

Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

2009-10-28 Thread YC
I looked at the pre.plt-scheme.org but I didn't find your reference - is it in another location? Pre's config.ss has not been modified since 2008 and it still only make requests to the current central planet server and cannot be pointed to a different url without manually hacking the code, so I

Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

2009-10-28 Thread YC
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: No, I'm not seeing what I recalled, either. Sorry. No worries. As far as your patch goes, I'm not sure that's the best long term solution and I'm not sure I want to support that going forward. Given how