[plt-dev] Re: [plt-internal] Upload of Planet package fails

2009-02-11 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Jens Axel Soegaard jensa...@soegaard.net wrote: My attempts of uploading a new version of math.plt failed. Is there a problem with PLaneT? I suspect that this error corresponds to the stacktrace I found in the log (below). I'm running a very old version of web

Re: [plt-dev] scribble support for HtDP-style data definitions?

2009-02-13 Thread Robby Findler
.) On Feb 13, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Is there a good way to typeset HtDP-style data definitions in Scribble? I've just been doing this: @verbatim[#--- ;; a state is either: ;; - 'playing ;; - 'cat-won ;; - 'cat-lost --- ] @verbatim[#--- ;; a board is ;; (listof

Re: [plt-dev] logging getting disabled in DrScheme

2009-02-19 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks. That's fixed now. (There were also some problems with multiple tabs interfering with each other's logs, but I think that's fixed now too.) Robby On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Dave Herman dher...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Oh! Even simpler: 1. Create the file. 2. View | Show Log 3. Run

[plt-dev] moving the Chicago mirror

2009-02-19 Thread Robby Findler
I'm sucking down the various downloads to start a new mirror at Northwestern. Can someone update the web page to point to it? (It should be done in about 20 minutes, I'm guessing.) This is the url: http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/plt-scheme/ Thanks, Robby

Re: [plt-dev] The PLT Virtual Machine is out of memory. Aborting.

2009-02-19 Thread Robby Findler
, I have a suspicion where the Dracula/ACL2 communication may be running up large amounts of memory. I'll keep it in mind if this happens again. Thanks for the suggestion. --Carl On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I'm saying you got that message

Re: [plt-dev] searching for bitmap% via f1 on mac os x

2009-02-28 Thread Robby Findler
Yes, I have tcsh. Probably a red herring, then. Robby On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: On Feb 28, Robby Findler wrote: When I searched for bitmap% by putting my mouse on the word and hitting f1 in drscheme, I got this: browser-run: process execute

Re: [plt-dev] thread-specifics [PATCH]

2009-03-03 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Dimitris Vyzovitis v...@media.mit.edu wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Matthew Flatt wrote: Also, with regards to composition: by limiting the specific to a single cell, the compositional properties can be managed at the language level (scheme/base) where you are not

Re: [plt-dev] poll: scribble syntax indentation

2009-03-06 Thread Robby Findler
Did you consider having the scribble reader be more sophisticated with the strings it generates? That is, if a string comes from {} in Scribble (as opposed to something in a s-expression position -- those don't get this special treatment), then it only puts enough spaces in to go from the { to the

Re: [plt-dev] poll: scribble syntax indentation

2009-03-06 Thread Robby Findler
Hm. I don't know who messed up the indentation below, but the first example should look like the output of this expression: (display @f{a\n b\n c}) Robby On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Did you consider having the scribble reader be more

Re: [plt-dev] file/zip file sizes

2009-03-07 Thread Robby Findler
at 10:40 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: On Mar  6, Robby Findler wrote: Can you please point me to the code and explain the fix? It's just the bug that I described below.  Revision 13971. On 3/6/09, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Matthias

Re: [plt-dev] Re: [plt-bug] all/10123: spelling error in redex scribble docs

2009-03-10 Thread Robby Findler
FWIW, I did do a spell checker for SirMail that uses the same setup as the syntax colorer, so one could turn that on for strings or for comments, I expect. Robby On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:20 PM, pnkfe...@ccs.neu.edu

[plt-dev] xml contract violation

2009-03-13 Thread Robby Findler
Anyone recognize this? (file C:\\cygwin\\home\\robby\\svn\\exp\\plt\\collects\\xml\\private\\reader.ss) broke the contract (- (or/c location? symbol? #f) (or/c location? symbol? #f) symbol? (listof attribute?) (listof (or/c permissive/c pcdata? element?

Re: [plt-dev] ParenQuest

2009-03-17 Thread Robby Findler
I bonk'd my head! But I seem to be stuck -- is it possible the maze generation doesn't actually connect everything? (I might have just not walked in the right place, possibly ...) Robby On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: That's PR 10129. Fixed in SVN

Re: [plt-dev] ParenQuest

2009-03-17 Thread Robby Findler
connected mazes. You can move diagonal with y for upper left, u for upper right, b for lower left, and n for lower right. (You can also use the appropriate keys of the number pad.) :) Jay On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I bonk'd my head

Re: [plt-dev] request for typed library

2009-03-17 Thread Robby Findler
What would happen if we threw it out now (on the trunk, not on the release branch)? Robby On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Kathryn Gray wrote: On 17 Mar 2009, at 1:53:33, Matthias Felleisen wrote: On Mar 17,

[plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.1.5

2009-03-18 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: * Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu  - DrScheme Tests - Framework Tests  - Contracts Tests - Games Tests  - Teachpacks Tests: image tests  - PLaneT Tests  Updates:  - DrScheme Updates: update HISTORY

Re: [plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.1.5

2009-03-18 Thread Robby Findler
What is the 'event not registered' bug? On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:35 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: * Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu  - Teachpacks Tests: check that new teachpacks are addable  - Teachpack Docs:

Re: [plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.1.5, second call

2009-03-19 Thread Robby Findler
Carl: is it possible to release 1.4 of your package that just deals with this bug? Or is there no fix to the bug that doesn't also break the interface somehow? Robby On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Doug Williams m.douglas.willi...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to be one of the sxml or ssax

Re: [plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.1.5, second call

2009-03-19 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Carl Eastlund carl.eastl...@gmail.com wrote: I do wish there were a way to specify an upper limit on the version number with which a package is compatible, just like we have a lower limit.  That way users would get an error message stating clearly that the

Re: [plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.1.5, second call

2009-03-19 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Carl Eastlund carl.eastl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Carl Eastlund carl.eastl...@gmail.com wrote: I do wish there were a way to specify an upper limit

Re: [plt-dev] Release Announcement for v4.1.5, third call

2009-03-19 Thread Robby Findler
There is misc stuff, but I don't see anything worth mentioning in the release particularly. Robby On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below.  I didn't get any additional edits. Specific people: *

[plt-dev] Re: localization

2009-04-22 Thread Robby Findler
How about this: Mike has (I believe) string-constant-izied some files so that he can use the testing code in German. I'll take what he's done and abstract it slightly differently so that we just have two versions, a German one and an English one and htdp will use one and deinprogramm the other.

[plt-dev] Re: [plt-translators] Translations for test engine

2009-04-23 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Michael Sperber sper...@deinprogramm.de wrote: Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu writes: This I'm not sure. I see that creating a distribution archive with a 'check-expect' expression in just ignore the check-expects, so maybe there is special-case

[plt-dev] Re: [plt-translators] Translations for test engine

2009-04-23 Thread Robby Findler
-expect code up and end up having to make all deinprogramm uses of it give German error messages and all htdp uses give English error messages, regardless of the user's language preferences. But not today. Robby On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Michael Sperber sper...@deinprogramm.de wrote: Robby

Re: [plt-dev] Patch: index planet info fields

2009-04-30 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Van Horn dvanh...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I can't check in, but here's the whole file. Thanks, I've checked it in. Robby _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [plt-dev] Re: drscheme window sizes

2009-04-30 Thread Robby Findler
I've checked in a change to profj so that the preferences dialog should now fit on your screen. Robby On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Ah, yeah. I actually did this:  (plt:framework-pref:drscheme:tools-configuration lib profjWizard

[plt-dev] rnrs collection runs out of memory when compiling

2009-05-05 Thread Robby Findler
I'm getting this behavior pretty consistently: setup-plt: making: rnrs setup-plt: in rnrs PLT Scheme virtual machine has run out of memory; aborting Abort Exit 134 _ For list-related administrative tasks:

[plt-dev] Re: [plt-bug] all/10233: error on RUN in BSL, apparently related to test engine

2009-05-11 Thread Robby Findler
, at 7:14 AM, Robby Findler wrote: I didn't fix anything, so I'm cc'ing plt-dev in case the person who did is there. Robby On Sunday, May 10, 2009, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Correct. It went away with an update. (I had thursday's drscheme running.) BUT, now I am getting

[plt-dev] Re: [plt-bug] all/10233: error on RUN in BSL, apparently related to test engine

2009-05-11 Thread Robby Findler
I dropped bugs since this is not the same bug as the original PR. The problem appears to be a combination of the way big-bang expands and the way test coverage works. Here's a shorter program that I think illustrates this a little bit better: ;; BSL: (require 2htdp/universe) (define (clack ws x

[plt-dev] where clauses in reduction relations metafunctions

2009-05-12 Thread Robby Findler
If you have any redex models lying around, can you look and see if you use 'where' clauses? If so, can you look to see if the variable bound in the where clause has an appropriate name for what it is bound to? That is, if it is bound to a number, the variable must be named number_x (for some 'x')?

Re: [plt-dev] Programmatic running of student programs

2009-05-14 Thread Robby Findler
I believe you want to look at the handin server. It has lots of support and is easy to set up and use. Robby On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Van Horn dvanh...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: I don't know how much of sand-boxing there is, but TestFest has a lot of

Re: [plt-dev] identifier-prune-lexical-context

2009-05-17 Thread Robby Findler
Could this be useful for contracts? It expands into a macro definition and there are generally lots of irrelevant identifiers kept, I think. You know -- this also makes me wonder if there could be a performance debugging tool in there. Perhaps something that takes a syntax object or a .zo file

Re: [plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] End-user instructions for upgrading single PLaneT package

2009-05-18 Thread Robby Findler
, Robby Findler wrote: Just to be clear, I essentially agree with everything you've written. We do need something better and tool support for it. A GUI that helps the user's control the upgrades would be a great idea. (IF you were to write one I'd be happy to take it!) I am still wondering

Re: [plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] End-user instructions for upgrading single PLaneT package

2009-05-18 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Robby Findler wrote: All of the database functionality in the server is separated out, so it shoudl not be too hard to add a web-based interface to it (see db.ss in iplt/planet/). That looks like a database

Re: [plt-dev] Q. about contract of drscheme:eval:expand-program

2009-05-20 Thread Robby Findler
Oh yes, you're right. That is old. Robby On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:45 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: The contract for drscheme:eval:expand-program specifies that it accepts an 'iter' argument fulfilling this contract: (- (or/c eof-object? syntax? (cons/c string? any/c))  

[plt-dev] svn help?

2009-05-21 Thread Robby Findler
I'm getting the following: [robby-laptop2] ~/svn svn checkout http://svn.plt-scheme.org/usr/mflatt/text/scribble usr/mflatt/text/scribble svn: REPORT of '/usr/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read response body: Connection reset by peer (http://svn.plt-scheme.org) Exit 1 I have version 1.5.1. Anyone

[plt-dev] hangman teachpack broken

2009-05-21 Thread Robby Findler
With an empty definitions window: Welcome to DrScheme, version 4.1.900-svn20may2009 [3m]. Language: Advanced Student custom; memory limit: 256 megabytes. Teachpack: hangman.ss. 1 This program should be tested. define-compound-unit/infer: untagged initialization dependent signature mred^ is

Re: [plt-dev] hangman teachpack broken

2009-05-21 Thread Robby Findler
AM, Robby Findler wrote: With an empty definitions window: Welcome to DrScheme, version 4.1.900-svn20may2009 [3m]. Language: Advanced Student custom; memory limit: 256 megabytes. Teachpack: hangman.ss. 1 This program should be tested. define-compound-unit/infer: untagged initialization

Re: [plt-dev] hangman teachpack broken

2009-05-21 Thread Robby Findler
tell me what the error message means, I'll start looking into it. (I am wondering whether it's related to the backdoor into drscheme that hangman opens up.) On May 21, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Robby Findler wrote: I don't know what it means, but it happens in #lang scheme, too: #lang scheme

Re: [plt-dev] hangman teachpack broken

2009-05-21 Thread Robby Findler
I was doing similar things when Matthew sent his message. Guess it pays to have written the error messages, eh? :) Thanks, Matthew. Robby On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: The following program triggers the error. #lang scheme/load (module

[plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.2

2009-05-22 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: * Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu  - DrScheme Tests  - Teachpacks Tests: image tests - Framework Tests - Contracts Tests - Games Tests  - PLaneT Tests  Updates:  - DrScheme Updates: update HISTORY

Re: [plt-dev] 4.2 release should go to plt-scheme for testing first?

2009-05-22 Thread Robby Findler
Are you quoting my message specifically for a reason? And major version bumps are when things are least stable, not most stable! Robby On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:59 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Robby Findler wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5

Re: [plt-dev] 4.2 release should go to plt-scheme for testing first?

2009-05-22 Thread Robby Findler
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:14 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Are you quoting my message specifically for a reason? Honestly, the reason that your message prompted my response was that I just fixed a bug in the stepper

Re: [plt-dev] 4.2 release should go to plt-scheme for testing first?

2009-05-22 Thread Robby Findler
Findler wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:14 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Are you quoting my message specifically for a reason? Honestly, the reason that your message prompted my response was that I just fixed a bug

Re: [plt-dev] DrScheme definitions crash in pre-release

2009-05-23 Thread Robby Findler
I tried to follow the steps with collects/drscheme/private/rep.ss and couldn't make it fail. Specifically, I hit return on the second line (making the buffer modified) and then check syntax; I waited until it was in coloring mode (according to the status line) and then hit cmd-s (for save) and

Re: [plt-dev] weird error; contracts for xml error

2009-05-30 Thread Robby Findler
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: 1. what does this really mean: Making Web pages in /Users/matthias/0Unison/0Web/ link: module mismatch, probably from old bytecode whose dependencies have changed: variable not provided (directly or indirectly

Re: [plt-dev] weird error; contracts for xml error

2009-05-30 Thread Robby Findler
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: 1. what does this really mean: Making Web pages in /Users/matthias/0Unison/0Web/ link: module mismatch, probably from old bytecode

Re: [plt-dev] documentation slowing down installs and builds dramatically

2009-06-01 Thread Robby Findler
I think PLaneT does indeed work that way. Even worse, there is a bug somewhere that causes CM to not compile package B (or C or D ...) making things even worse. I got as far as figuring out that it was a parameter that changed (I think it was the namespace?) that somehow causes CM to disable

[plt-dev] help with svn?

2009-06-05 Thread Robby Findler
I was svn v1.5.4 to check out usr/robby and getting this error: svn: REPORT of '/usr/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read response body: Connection reset by peer (http://svn.plt-scheme.org) Exit 1 so I upgraded to 1.6.2 and now I get this: svn checkout http://svn.plt-scheme.org/usr/robby robby

Re: [plt-dev] help with svn?

2009-06-05 Thread Robby Findler
Turns out I didn't include http support when I built 1.6.2. After doing that, I was able to check everything out fine. Robby On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Paulo J. Matospocma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Robby Findlerro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I was svn

[plt-dev] foreign fails to configure

2009-06-06 Thread Robby Findler
I'm starting from a clean build directory and get the error: configure: error: source directory already configured; run make distclean there first configure: error: ../../../../foreign/gcc/libffi/configure failed for foreign/gcc/libffi Full transcript below. Robby [chienshi] ~/svn/exp/plt/src%

[plt-dev] Re: foreign fails to configure

2009-06-06 Thread Robby Findler
Deleting all of the src tree and re-downloading it worked. I don't think that I'd run configure outside of that build directory, but it is possible, I suppose. Robby On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Robby Findlerro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I'm starting from a clean build directory and get

[plt-dev] more svn troubles

2009-06-08 Thread Robby Findler
Now that I'm using svn v1.6.2, I can't seem to login to get /usr/matthias/Papers/Universe. This might be because of a new way of interpreting permissions (as I can still get the files via the web browser). Anyone know? (Eli, could you just give me more permissions, if that seems like it would

Re: [plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] SchemeUnit confusion

2009-06-09 Thread Robby Findler
I think the concern is for code that is being written by people who aren't working in our SVN repository. Robby On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: We routinely update collections in the core code base and most of the time, it suffices to run setup on

Re: [plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] SchemeUnit confusion

2009-06-09 Thread Robby Findler
Eli so. On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Robby Findler wrote: I think the worry goes something like this: a) I use the plt web server and scheme unit (to pick two arbitrary parts of the distribution, really this could be X and Y iiuc). b) a new release comes out that has a bugfix in the web

Re: [plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] SchemeUnit confusion

2009-06-09 Thread Robby Findler
:31 AM, Robby Findler wrote: I think the concern is for code that is being written by people who aren't working in our SVN repository. Robby On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: We routinely update collections in the core code base and most

Re: [plt-dev] documentation slowing down installs and builds dramatically

2009-06-17 Thread Robby Findler
, Robby Findler wrote: I think PLaneT does indeed work that way. Even worse, there is a bug somewhere that causes CM to not compile package B (or C or D ...) making things even worse. I got as far as figuring out that it was a parameter that changed (I think it was the namespace?) that somehow

[plt-dev] svn, more confusion

2009-06-19 Thread Robby Findler
I'd like to create a branch from a specific revision. I tried this: svn copy http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/collects/re...@14919 http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/branches/robby/redex-pat but got the usual please give me your password message which I now interpret as something is broken. Does

Re: [plt-dev] svn, more confusion

2009-06-19 Thread Robby Findler
Just in case anyone else wants to do this, Dave helpfully supplied a workaround. (Note that I'm using svn v1.6.2, so this isn't fixed there yet.) Robby On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dave Gurnelld.j.gurn...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 Jun 2009, at 16:33, Robby Findler wrote: I'd like

Re: [plt-dev] Contract not reporting correctly

2009-07-01 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks, fixed in SVN. Robby On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Noel Welshnoelwe...@gmail.com wrote: (require scheme/contract) (define/contract (foo-x f) (- (vector-immutableof number?) number?) (vector-ref f 0)) (foo-x #(1 2 3)) 1 (foo-x '(1 2 3)) . (file

Re: [plt-dev] Release for v4.2.1 is about to begin

2009-07-01 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Jos Kootjos.k...@telefonica.net wrote: Two wishes (low priority AFAIAC) 1 Making parameters for x-spacing and y-spacing in redex/private/traces.ss. Done. 2 When in a traces gui an arrow makes a small incoming angle with the vertical or horizontal edge of a

Re: [plt-dev] drscheme window persistence

2009-07-04 Thread Robby Findler
I believe I've fixed this. (I've only tested in mac os x, but this was a Scheme-level change, so it should be the same under windows). Do let me know if you see any more problems. You should be able to try it out tomorrow with the nightly build binaries here:

Re: [plt-dev] cons*, why not?

2009-07-12 Thread Robby Findler
Personally, I think the name cons* is better because the function does a whole bunch of cons's (and whole bunch of is one common meaning of *). Robby On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Eli Barzilaye...@barzilay.org wrote: On Jul 12, Paulo J. Matos wrote: On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 10:43 -0400, Carl

Re: [plt-dev] Release Announcement for v4.2.1

2009-07-20 Thread Robby Findler
...@barzilay.org wrote: On Jul 20, Robby Findler wrote: I think define-relation is new this time, in Redex...? (Most of the text I'm including at this stage is coming from scanning the commit messages.) --          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay

[plt-dev] Re: Pre-Release Checklist for v4.2.1

2009-07-21 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Eli Barzilaye...@barzilay.org wrote: * Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu  - DrScheme Tests  - Framework Tests  - Contracts Tests  - Games Tests  - Teachpacks Tests: image tests  - PLaneT Tests Done.  Updates:  - DrScheme Updates: update HISTORY

[plt-dev] svn merginfo property

2009-07-26 Thread Robby Findler
Anyone understand svn merging enough to be able to decode this error message? I was doing a merge from some (old) code that I wanted to get back to (figuring that a merge was the way to get started). Conflict for property 'svn:mergeinfo' discovered on 'stxclass/main.ss'. They want to delete

Re: [plt-dev] svn merginfo property

2009-07-27 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks . :) I've gone with mine full and hopefully everything will be fine when I merge back into the trunk Robby On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Noel Welshnoelwe...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps the revision dates from before svn 1.5, which added (some) merge tracking, and uses the

Re: [plt-dev] svn merginfo property

2009-07-27 Thread Robby Findler
Do you still have those places handy? I didn't have much luck with my google queries. Robby On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Eli Barzilaye...@barzilay.org wrote: On Jul 27, Robby Findler wrote: Thanks . :) I've gone with mine full and hopefully everything will be fine when I merge back

Re: [plt-dev] svn merginfo property

2009-07-27 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks. Robby On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Eli Barzilaye...@barzilay.org wrote: On Jul 27, Robby Findler wrote: Do you still have those places handy? I didn't have much luck with my google queries. I just googled for Conflict for property 'svn:mergeinfo' discovered on (with the double

[plt-dev] pgsql package

2009-07-27 Thread Robby Findler
Hi all (Ryan?): I've got a question about pgsql. From what I can tell, string data is stored in the database in the latin-1 encoding (sql-data.ss line 191), but is then retrieved from the database in the utf-8 encoding (io.ss line 205). Am I getting that right? This doesn't mean much, but I

Re: [plt-dev] pgsql package

2009-07-28 Thread Robby Findler
...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Ryan Culpepperry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Robby Findler wrote: Hi all (Ryan?): I've got a question about pgsql. From what I can tell, string data is stored in the database in the latin-1 encoding (sql-data.ss line 191), but is then retrieved from

Re: [plt-dev] pgsql package

2009-07-29 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks for the reply, Dave! The encoding of my database is SQL_ASCII which, IIUC, means that the bug really is in the SCheme code side for putting the data in one way and expecting it to come out the other way. I don't suppose you (or anyone!) could recommend how this should work? If I change

Re: [plt-dev] pgsql package

2009-07-29 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Ryan Culpepperry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Robby Findler wrote: Thanks for the reply, Dave! The encoding of my database is SQL_ASCII which, IIUC, means that the bug really is in the SCheme code side for putting the data in one way and expecting it to come out

Re: [plt-dev] pgsql package

2009-07-29 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Ryan Culpepperry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Ryan Culpepper wrote: Robby Findler wrote: Thanks for the reply, Dave! The encoding of my database is SQL_ASCII which, IIUC, means that the bug really is in the SCheme code side for putting the data in one way

Re: [plt-dev] svn cp?

2009-07-30 Thread Robby Findler
, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Ryan Culpepperry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Robby Findler wrote: Did someone do an svn cp somehow related to the file collects/tests/typed-scheme/succeed/pr9053-2.ss? If so, I think svn cp shoudl be permanently banned from now on. If you want to rename, you just lose the history

Re: [plt-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v4.2.1 -- Pinging Sam

2009-07-30 Thread Robby Findler
Sorry, Doug. I'll lay off the date-sensitive easter eggs from now on. :( I believe these are all of the the special days: 3/2 3/26 4/8 6/11 7/2 7/30 10/29 10/31 11/1 12/25 Eli: does it make sense to add something that could test this stuff on a nightly basis (ie set the date to the dates listed

[plt-dev] Re: [plt-scheme] Automatic compilation for drscheme's Module language

2009-07-30 Thread Robby Findler
(I ask because it would be helpful to see what was happening when it worked and also to be able to build a test case. I also tried 4.2.1 and I'm not seeing it work there either.) Thanks, Robby On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Robby Findlerro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Does 4.1.5 work

Re: [plt-dev] Universe HtDP/2e build errors

2009-08-05 Thread Robby Findler
I'm not actually doing anything with that code, but I went ahead and removed it from the file in SVN. Robby On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Aug 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Also, looking at syn-aux.ss, I see this: ;; Symbol

[plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

2009-08-12 Thread Robby Findler
? or use the source file instead? On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Robby Findler wrote: I see a few possibilities. I think that this is a problem specific to people who work regularly with SVN, so we can expect such people to have extra sophistication:  - (IMO, the second best option and one

[plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

2009-08-12 Thread Robby Findler
I see a few possibilities. I think that this is a problem specific to people who work regularly with SVN, so we can expect such people to have extra sophistication: - (IMO, the second best option and one that is available now): instead of saying mzscheme file.ss, say mzc file.ss mzscheme

[plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

2009-08-12 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Robby Findler wrote: Yes, it could. That's the second option I suggested below. I was more conservative, tho, and suggested that it only be turned on with a flag. But perhaps

Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

2009-08-12 Thread Robby Findler
Okay, after some more thought and offline consultation, I've changed the way DrScheme works wrt to saving compiled .zo files. It now saves its compiled files in compiled/drscheme/ (and compiled/drscheme/errortrace), meaning that the files will be ignored when mzscheme runs. It also only looks in

Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

2009-08-12 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Eli Barzilaye...@barzilay.org wrote: On Aug 12, Robby Findler wrote: Okay, after some more thought and offline consultation, I've changed the way DrScheme works wrt to saving compiled .zo files. It now saves its compiled files in compiled/drscheme

Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

2009-08-12 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Sam THsa...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: What if mzscheme-compiled files already exist?  Does it use those? Yes. With preference given to the drscheme ones. If it doesn't, won't it recompile the entire collects tree the first time you try to do anything? No, the don't

Re: [plt-dev] module language compilation tweak

2009-08-17 Thread Robby Findler
release, the change is that the compilation is now cached, so overall a speed up. Robby On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jon Rafkindrafk...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Robby Findler wrote: The default for the module language is now *with* errortrace enabled. Note that this means that drscheme

PLaneT and automatic compilation bad interaction (was Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation)

2009-08-18 Thread Robby Findler
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Sam THsa...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: So, I think I just encountered the following problem: 1. Turn on all the new-fangled auto-compilation. 2. Add a planet require (for something not currently installed) to the module in the definitions window. 3. Watch while your

Re: PLaneT and automatic compilation bad interaction (was Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation)

2009-08-18 Thread Robby Findler
Actually, that can't be the whole story, since it is trying to compile errortrace .zo files, not regular ones and that is controlled via parameters. So there must be some sharing going on, somehow. Hm. Robby On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Robby Findlerro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: On

Re: PLaneT and automatic compilation bad interaction (was Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation)

2009-08-18 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Robby Findlerro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Actually, that can't be the whole story, since it is trying to compile errortrace .zo files, not regular ones and that is controlled via parameters. So there must be some sharing going on, somehow. Hm. Oh, I

Re: PLaneT and automatic compilation bad interaction (was Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation)

2009-08-19 Thread Robby Findler
-0500, Robby Findler wrote: At this point, it seemed to me that it would be hopeless to try to get the original values of the scheme/base parameters (specifically current-compile), I think we should work on making this possible. A program might set all sorts of parameters before (dynamically

Re: PLaneT and automatic compilation bad interaction (was Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation)

2009-08-20 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Matthew Flattmfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Done in SVN (v4.2.1.7). I've adjusted `planet/resolver' to accept an original-parameterization argument that the default module name resolver provides. But `planet-resolve' still needs to use it somehow. Thanks, Matthew.

[plt-dev] DrScheme's zippyness: linux fonts

2009-08-24 Thread Robby Findler
I've noticed that (on my netbook, running linux) the choice of font can be a significant factor in how zippy DrScheme feels. I'm sure that eventually there will be improvements to the infrastructure to speed things up, but in the meantime you can at least get a feel for the text drawing speed with

Re: [plt-dev] EMERGENCY: drscheme no longer works in today's svn head

2009-08-27 Thread Robby Findler
I think that for the next few hours, you'd probably better either get yesterday's SVN (maybe two days ago) or use the latest released version. Sorry :( Robby On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Switching to Module in drscheme immediately produces

Re: [plt-dev] EMERGENCY: drscheme no longer works in today's svn head

2009-08-27 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I blew away my tree and compiled the whole thing from scratch. All bugs disappeared. That makes sense to me. The trick is to understand how your .zo files got into the wrong state in the first place. One possible

Re: [plt-dev] EMERGENCY: drscheme no longer works in today's svn head

2009-08-27 Thread Robby Findler
Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Robby Findler wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I blew away my tree and compiled the whole thing from scratch. All bugs disappeared. That makes sense to me. The trick

Re: [plt-dev] EMERGENCY: drscheme no longer works in today's svn head

2009-08-27 Thread Robby Findler
: who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.- Leon Trotsky 2009/8/27 Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu: Sorry -- this was not aimed at you specifically. In this case, I think it is going to be tricky to reproduce. In any case, I

Re: [plt-dev] abstract contracts

2009-09-05 Thread Robby Findler
, Robby Findler wrote: I've added #:exists to provide/contract, as a way to hide information ala type t declarations on ML signatures. See the contracts section in the Guide for a worked example and a discussion of a gotcha. The short version is that you can now write things like

Re: [plt-dev] abstract contracts

2009-09-06 Thread Robby Findler
Right. That wouldn't be parametric. Robby On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Robby Findler wrote: No. As we discussed, there can't be with this meaning of #:exists. If there were, you'd run into the same problem

Re: [plt-dev] performance-oriented unsafe operations (v4.2.1.8)

2009-09-06 Thread Robby Findler
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Matthew Flattmfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: At Sun, 6 Sep 2009 14:22:34 -0600, Doug Williams wrote: I assume that if I use these and introduce a dependency on 4.2.2 or later that I should also bump the version number of the science collection in PLaneT - even if the

Re: [plt-dev] abstract contracts

2009-09-08 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Matthias Felleisenmatth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Thanks for reminding me of this. Sam and I had an example like this that explained why we couldn't use plain polymorphic contracts to control exports from Typed Scheme. I don't see how an example along these lines

Re: [plt-dev] Mysterious link: module mismatch bug

2009-09-08 Thread Robby Findler
Likely the files in compiled/drscheme/ are out of date. Why cm isn't bringing them back into sync is unclear to me, but you can at least get out of the bad loop by deleting those directories. Robby On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Carl Eastlundc...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Running code in DrScheme

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