Re: [racket-dev] potentially renaming /usr/bin/planet to /usr/bin/planet-racket in Debian

2012-07-30 Thread Doug Williams
I have some scripts that still use planet. I use development links as a substitute for a local PLaneT-like capability and have scripts to do this for me. Some of these are on production servers. I would create an alias for it anyway, but would rather it stayed as is. Doug On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at

Re: [racket-dev] potentially renaming /usr/bin/planet to /usr/bin/planet-racket in Debian

2012-07-30 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It will stay 'as is' for this release. But we intend to deprecate 'planet' so that people begin to switch to 'raco planet'. -- Matthias On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Doug Williams wrote: > I have some scripts that still use planet. I use development links as > a substitute for a local PLaneT-l

Re: [racket-dev] seeing segfaults on build on 64-bit ubuntu

2012-07-30 Thread Matthew Flatt
Thanks! Inspired by this information, I've managed to produce a consistent crash on my machine by attempting to render the "plot" documentation concurrently in three places. My guess is that it's a thread-safety problem in Cairo. That is, Cairo is supposed to be thread-safe, but maybe we're trippi

Re: [racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

2012-07-30 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:33:54 -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > How about having a `compatibility' collect, which would include this and > things like `racket/package' (compatibility with Chez) and `racket/mpair' > (compatibility with Scheme)? It would be harder to confuse these things > with blessed

Re: [racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

2012-07-30 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:10:28 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > At Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:33:54 -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > > How about having a `compatibility' collect, which would include this and > > things like `racket/package' (compatibility with Chez) and `racket/mpair' > > (compatibility wit

Re: [racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

2012-07-30 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > The main advantage (IMO) of having, say, mutable lists in > `compatibility' is that searching the docs points there instead of to > `racket'. This makes it clear that they are not a blessed Racket > feature. This is (IMO) the main point of th

Re: [racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

2012-07-30 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:52:52 -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > The main advantage (IMO) of having, say, mutable lists in > `compatibility' is that searching the docs points there instead of to > `racket'. This makes it clear that they are not a blessed Racket > feature. This is (IMO) the main point

[racket-dev] DrDr - previous/next change buttons

2012-07-30 Thread Jay McCarthy
DrDr now has green buttons to go between times the file's output has changed. Hopefully this will help you find problematic commits easier. Jay -- Jay McCarthy Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93

Re: [racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

2012-07-30 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:00:12 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > Having said that, I would like to propose that we COPY > files/subcollections from racket/ to compatibility/ (and keep them in > sync) if we wish to indicate that they are not really rackety. Assuming you mean keeping the same interfa

Re: [racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

2012-07-30 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:52:06 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:00:12 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I fully and enthusiastically agree with this perspective but I don't think > > this > > is high on our list of things to do. > > > > When we consider such moves, we shoul

Re: [racket-dev] DrDr - previous/next change buttons

2012-07-30 Thread John Clements
On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > DrDr now has green buttons to go between times the file's output has > changed. Hopefully this will help you find problematic commits easier. Here's what I think is a super-minor request. When I view the diff of two DrDr outputs; say: http://d

[racket-dev] Racket 5.2 on OpenBSD and --enable-backtrace

2012-07-30 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
Hi. I've a question about --enable-backtrace in the configure step. Is it useful for the users or only is useful for the racket developers?. This option affect to the performance of racket?. I'm not a scheme/racket developer. I'm just the racket maintainer on OpenBSD [1]. I'm using this configure