Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-27 Thread Robby Findler
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > On 01/24/2012 10:30 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Eli Barzilay  wrote: >>> >>> There's no mention of the new icons at all now (not the library). >>> Superficial, but will probably make many happy. >>

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-27 Thread Ryan Culpepper
On 01/24/2012 10:30 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: There's no mention of the new icons at all now (not the library). Superficial, but will probably make many happy. I think we should mention the icons, for two reasons: 1. Neil did a ton o

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-25 Thread Neil Toronto
* Plots look nicer, render up to 4 times faster, and are more correct at very small and very large scales. New features include customizable dual axis ticks and transforms (e.g. log axes, date and currency ticks, axis interval collapse and stretch), stacked histograms, and 3D vec

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > There's no mention of the new icons at all now (not the library). > Superficial, but will probably make many happy. I think we should mention the icons, for two reasons: 1. Neil did a ton of work, and it should be recognized. 2. The new ico

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-24 Thread Eli Barzilay
There's no mention of the new icons at all now (not the library). Superficial, but will probably make many happy. Two hours ago, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > * Performance improvements include the use of epoll()/kqueue() >instead of select() for the Racket thread scheduler, >cross-module inlin

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-24 Thread Danny Yoo
> * The `2htdp/universe' library's `big-bang' form supports an >  experimental game pad key handler. I just want to make sure I know what this is. This is referring to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bDcsplgE0jFAavvxYWRISpKb1Z94MRPtQ_EjyB3e7hI/edit right? _

[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2.1, second draft

2012-01-24 Thread Ryan Culpepper
Below is the second draft of the release announcement items for v5.2.1. Let me know if I've missed something. -- * Performance improvements include the use of epoll()/kqueue() instead of select() for the Racket thread schedule