Okay, I spent half an hour on this, and I think I’m done… um, almost. Actually, it appears that my quick job of updating the drracket tool has resulted in a configuration that can reliably make DrRacket seg fault (!). Since this package does not involve FFI in any way, this is a bug in DrRacket, so now I’m duty-bound to see what the heck is going on.
John > On Oct 16, 2017, at 21:09, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I think it's the case that making the change to `random` is simple (or > removing it if that's the appropriate thing), though I *believe* that > Danny would be the only one who could re-upload it to planet. > > If you're willing to get it from a different source, e.g. > pkgs.racket-lang.org, then it should be easy enough for anyone to > upload the modified version there. > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Josh Paley <josh.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Racket Community, >> >> We use the book Simply Scheme at my high school. Danny Yoo did a wonderful >> job adapting the library content for that book, but he left the code for >> random numbers in place. The book assumed versions of Scheme that might not >> have random and provided a fixed seed, meaning every time a new session is >> run, the seed goes back to the same thing. >> >> What I was hoping was that Danny would have time to do an update that would >> remove the random code in the simply.scm file, but he's unable to do so and >> suggested that I see if someone in racket-users might be able to help by >> forking planet-dyoo-simply-scheme2 and doing whatever it is that needs to be >> done to create an update. If someone could guide me on how the process of >> modifying an existing package, I'd do it as I know exactly what code I am >> looking for and it ought to be an easy change. >> >> If you can help, please let me know. My fellow teachers and I would be >> extremely grateful. >> >> Regards, >> >> Josh >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > http://www.apgwoz.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
