oh, cool. I like easter eggs. This was no chocolate though. :p
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Dear Racket users, > > Many of you noticed that DrRacket v5.2.1 refused to launch today, March 26. > We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. > > The problem is due to a so-called "Easter egg", which is a visual surprise > that one developer builds into the code for the others and our users -- a > tradition going back to the early days of our project. The bug affects only > DrRacket, no other Racket software. > > As far as version 5.2.1 is concerned, it will disappear tomorrow, but it > will return later this year. For the upcoming release -- due out before > the next "easter egg" date -- we will either install much more reliable > test methods for the Easter eggs or we will remove them entirely. > > More immediately, we offer the following workarounds for the DrRacket bug: > > * Revert to version 5.2: > > http://download.racket-lang.org/racket-v5.2.html > > * In your current installation of 5.2.1, navigate to the following folder: > > collects -> drracket -> private > > remove the file > > drracket-normal.rkt > > and replace it with the corrected copy at > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/fix/drracket-normal.rkt > > * For those of you with commandline tool experience, download a Racket > patch file from > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/fix/patch-for-v5.2.1.plt > > navigate in your shell to the folder with the 5.2.1 executables, and > install the patch with > > ./raco setup -A .... > > where .... specifies a path to the downloaded file. > > As much as we prepare and test these Easter eggs, software obeys only one > law: what can go wrong will go wrong eventually. We definitely should have > been more careful. > > Once again, we regret any problems we caused you today > > -- Matthias Felleisen, for PLT > > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
