As far as the release is concerned, I don't think there's anything we can do about this problem at this stage. Since that regression was already present in 6.4, I don't think it's urgent to put a fix in 6.5.
As far as workarounds to use with 6.4/6.5, maybe Sam has some ideas. Vincent On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:40:24 -0500, Doug Williams wrote: > > I tested the plot package that I normally test and it works fine. But, I > still have a problem that I first noticed in 6.4 - but may have been > introduced slightly earlier. For me it manifests as a problem with the > interaction between typed Racket code, bigfloat? in math/bigfloat, and > some higher-order values passed as 'Any' in untyped code, mcons in > racket/mpair. This is Racket bug #15274. > > My describe package dispatches on the type of an argument to be > described. As noted above, it include descriptions of, among many other > things, bigfloats and mutable lists. But, the dispatch code fails > because of the above error. The easiest fix is just to not include any > typed Racket types, but that is more extreme than I would like. I could > move all of the tests for types from typed Racket to the end (which may > currently be just bigfloat), but types that I don't currently test for > may still hit the same error. > > Is there a simple fix for predicates like bigfloat? in the typed code to > not use Any as a type? Or some other recommendation? > > Doug > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Vincent St-Amour > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The release process for v6.5 has begun: the `release' branch was > created for any work that is left and is now bumped to v6.4.90.900. > You > can go on using the `master' branch as usual, it is now bumped to > v6.5.0.1 (to avoid having two different trees with the same > version). > > If you have any bug-fixes and changes that need to go in the release > then make sure to specify that in the commit message or mail me the > commit SHA1s. You can `git checkout release' to try it out directly > if > needed -- but do not try to push commits on it (the server will > forbid > it). > > Please make sure that code that you're responsible for is as stable > as possible, and let me know if there is any new work that should > not be included in this release. > > >> NOW IS THE TIME TO FIX BUGS THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT <<< > > The time between the `release' branch creation and the actual > release is for fixing new errors that prevent proper functioning of > major components and that show up during the preparation for a > release. You can also finalize piece of work that is not yet > complete, but please avoid merging new features. > > Note that nightly builds will go on as usual (starting from > v6.5.0.1 and going up as usual), and pre-release builds will be > available shortly at > > http://pre-release.racket-lang.org/ > > Please tell me if you think that this release is significant enough > that it should be announced on the users list for wider testing.}} > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/m2inzt5ptp.wl-stamourv%40eecs.northwestern.edu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CACvwowXDERG9z5AHo%3DTamZDQWVJZXt6HvJvD%3D6kAf-F3WyDZKg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/m2zisqznqt.wl-stamourv%40eecs.northwestern.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
