Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? Robby Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available packages. How about: Racket version 6.0 comes with a new package system,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
Okay, new version below. Thanks! If there is a drdr graph that shows the 50% jump, I'd like to add that pointer into the notes in the bullet you added, eg: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some large programs. See, for example: http://drdr.racket-lang.org/./bigfile.rkt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
The graph is at: http://drdr.racket-lang.org/28051/pkgs/typed-racket-pkgs/typed-racket-test/tests/typed-racket/succeed/new-metrics.rkt Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Okay, new version below. Thanks! If there is a drdr graph that shows

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
How about this bullet: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.eduwrote: The graph is at:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Looks good. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: How about this bullet: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I would omit 'now' (that's the whole point of a release announcement) and I'd avoid the dangling comparison with the Typed Racket compilation improved by 50% on some typed programs; see http:// ... On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Looks

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Vincent St-Amour
These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous release notes discussion, Jay and Neil had some bullets that I don't see on this list. There

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Use 'compiler performance' Avoid 'faster' without 'than' On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: I don't like the use of compilation here, but I'm happy to drop now. Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
I don't like the use of compilation here, but I'm happy to drop now. Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I would omit 'now' (that's the whole point of a release announcement) and I'd avoid the dangling comparison with the Typed Racket

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour stamo...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous release

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind writing it? Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: Use 'compiler performance' Avoid 'faster' without 'than' On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
* Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind writing it? Robby On Mon,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
-- the performance of the Typed Racket compiler improved by 50% on some typed programs; see http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z see http:// ... On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
faster than what? On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: * Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
I took Matthias's for now. :) faster than light, I think. Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: faster than what? On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: * Typed Racket is 50% faster when type

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:06 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: [1 text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)] On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour stamo...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks! I didn't include the DrRacket one, since I have more plans for that and would like to hold off announcing it until I get those things done (notably better some color-blindness color schemes, but also other tweaks to make color schemes just work better in general). Robby On Mon, Jan 13,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
-- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to longer on-line announcements? On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Thanks! I didn't include the

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
Here's the latest draft. Robby Racket 5.92 has a new package system, including a catalog of hundreds of already-available packages. Please visit http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ for an overview of the packages. Recent releases included the beta versions of the package system. Racket version 6.0

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
I think this is reasonably short for a 3x release cycle. Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: -- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to longer

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-12 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It would be nice if the docs url were functional. -- Matthias On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? Robby Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available packages. Please visit

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-12 Thread Robby Findler
I had hoped that that was going to be the correct url because doc.racket-lang.org/pkg is the top of the packages docs and the v5.92 packages documentation has a getting-started.html file. Robby On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: It would be nice

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-21 Thread Neil Toronto
On 12/19/2013 07:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Neil \bot: point-label3d * Plot: Added plot/no-gui, plot/pict and plot/bitmap for non-GUI uses (such as documentation building), and point-label3d. Neil \bot: math library improvements (docs in 6525e8f7 other stuff?) * Math: math/flonum

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-21 Thread Robby Findler
Did an appropriate HISTORY.txt file get updated with these? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Neil Toronto neil.toro...@gmail.comwrote: On 12/19/2013 07:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Neil \bot: point-label3d * Plot: Added plot/no-gui, plot/pict and plot/bitmap for non-GUI uses

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-21 Thread Neil Toronto
False. On 12/21/2013 07:33 PM, Robby Findler wrote: ∃ relevant(HISTORY.txt) ? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Neil Toronto neil.toro...@gmail.com mailto:neil.toro...@gmail.com wrote: Every existing, relevant HISTORY.txt was updated. :D Neil ⊥ On 12/21/2013 06:08 PM,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-21 Thread Robby Findler
I think you should consider starting one (assuming you've not already). Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Neil Toronto neil.toro...@gmail.comwrote: False. On 12/21/2013 07:33 PM, Robby Findler wrote: ∃ relevant(HISTORY.txt) ? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Neil Toronto

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Matthew Flatt
I've pushed some HISTORY.txt and documentation updates. Here are some draft blurbs for the release announcement: At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: Jay, Matthew: pkg improvements [...] Matthew, Robby: gui package manager Racket has a new package system and a catalog of

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: Jay, Matthew: pkg improvements [...] Matthew, Robby: gui package manager Racket has a new package system and a catalog of packages at

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I didn't track the TR commits as carefully as the other ones (sorry guys but you refactor a lot and it's hard to keep everything straight...) but I did see a bunch of optimizer related commits for TR and so I

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Matthias Felleisen
* 2htdp/batch-io includes functions for reading html/xml from files and URLs as X-expressions plus some conveniences for designing web-oriented graph traversals. On Dec 20, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: I've pushed some HISTORY.txt and documentation

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: Jay, Matthew: pkg improvements [...] Matthew, Robby: gui package manager Racket

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Jay, Jan Dvořák: formlet improvements * web-server/formlets supports generic input formlets and strings on all formlet default values. Jay: Host and Content-Length headers in http-client.rkt:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Robby Findler
I understand that one can reasonably view these as bug fixes. Nevertheless, they affect observable behavior of the functions in a way that could possibly break others code (as opposed to more obvious bug fixes that are likely to only affect others' code by fixing problems with it). So these

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I understand that one can reasonably view these as bug fixes. Nevertheless, they affect observable behavior of the functions in a way that could possibly break others code (as opposed to more obvious bug fixes

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Robby Findler
I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind doing it? Robby On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Jay McCarthy
Ah. I think you should do it :) On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind doing it? Robby On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

2013-12-20 Thread Robby Findler
Okay, done. Robby On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.comwrote: Ah. I think you should do it :) On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file somewhere.