[racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-11 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Matthew, Robby and I discussed a switch to a slightly slower release policy after PLT Day. Here is what we propose to switch to: four timed releases per year, targeted for on August 1, November 1, February 1, May 1 to be started 2 weeks before that (I'll spell that out, if

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-11 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
This is a step in the right direction but, I think, not quite enough. Frankly, it does not touch my biggest concern of lack of stability. It will actually make things worse, because >time between releases => >difference between releases, so things will break even more. As an alternative, I propose

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-11 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Sorry, this is a misunderstanding. The slow-down in releases and the stability are nearly orthogonal. Slowdown: The slowdown is a first step in the transition of Racket from a research language to a stable development language. People should eventually see small n major releases per year and

[racket-dev] continuation weirdness

2010-08-11 Thread Danny Yoo
I came across some oddity under DrRacket involving continuations. If I have the following in my definitions window: ; #lang racket (define (make-gen gen) (let ([cont (box #f)]) (lambda () (call/cc (lambda (caller)

[racket-dev] How to build Places

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin Tew
Places is ready for experimentation by a wider audience. Build Instructions mkdir build_places cd build_places ../src/configure --enable-places make make install Basic place API documentation should build in your user docs directory. collects/tests/racket/place-channel.r

Re: [racket-dev] How to build Places

2010-08-11 Thread Eric Dobson
Is there a place where we can see the docs without building from source? -Eric On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Kevin Tew wrote: > Places is ready for experimentation by a wider audience. > > Build Instructions > > mkdir build_places > cd build_places > ../src/configure

Re: [racket-dev] How to build Places

2010-08-11 Thread Gene Diveglia
Building as outlined below on OS X 10.6.4 Intel is failing. I'm anxious to experiment with places, any suggestions on how to fix this build? On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Kevin Tew wrote: > Places is ready for experimentation by a wider audience. > > Build Instructions > ==

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #20853: master branch updated

2010-08-11 Thread Jay McCarthy
I'd like comments on this addition in response to the blog post we saw on the list today. Jay On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:40 PM, wrote: > jay has updated `master' from 8dc38e9d84 to e06f0e78b2. >  http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/8dc38e9d84..e06f0e78b2 > > =[ 4 Commits ]

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #20853: master branch updated

2010-08-11 Thread Jon Rafkind
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Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #20853: master branch updated

2010-08-11 Thread Ryan Culpepper
Jay McCarthy wrote: I'd like comments on this addition in response to the blog post we saw on the list today. Jay On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:40 PM, wrote: jay has updated `master' from 8dc38e9d84 to e06f0e78b2. http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/8dc38e9d84..e06f0e78b2 =[ 4 Commits ]