Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.1.2, Second Call

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Sperber
Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org writes: 11 hours ago, Michael Sperber wrote: I still need Stephen Chang's commit to be merged over: commit 8956364387fa25ffeb51e50fc1a83c20fd88af32 Author: Stephen Chang stchang...@gmail.com Date: Sun Jul 24 12:18:09 2011 -0400 change recon-val in

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-28 Thread Noel Welsh
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, the VM would need to be changed as part of that work? There is nothing you can't do with a brave heart and a disassembler. In other words, I've

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-28 Thread Noel Welsh
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently telling some people that I thought 'Ruby on Rails' was mostly an ORM plus a set of default dispatching rules with convenient ways of extending the defaults. I agree, though I don't have much RoR

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-28 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Jul 28, 2011 7:26 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, the VM would need to be changed as part of that work? There is nothing you

[racket-dev] racket/draw and whalesong?

2011-07-28 Thread Danny Yoo
On Robby and Matthew's suggestion that I look into implementing the primitives of racket/draw, I took a look at the implementation. If I understand this correctly, it looks like I need to implement the methods of the drawing context interface, right? (If so, there's one obstacle that I'll need

[racket-dev] cannot disable libffi

2011-07-28 Thread Jon Rafkind
I am trying to compile racket for a different architecture that libffi is not ported to so I tried to use --disable-libffi but foreign/libffi still gets configured. A) should that be happening and B) is there a way around it? $ ../configure --disable-libffi --host=x86 ... configure: error: libffi

Re: [racket-dev] cannot disable libffi

2011-07-28 Thread Jon Rafkind
Ah it was --disable-foreign. --disable-libffi is to use the bundled ffi instead of the host one, or something. On 07/28/2011 11:42 AM, Jon Rafkind wrote: I am trying to compile racket for a different architecture that libffi is not ported to so I tried to use --disable-libffi but

Re: [racket-dev] racket/draw and whalesong?

2011-07-28 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: On Robby and Matthew's suggestion that I look into implementing the primitives of racket/draw, I took a look at the implementation. If I understand this correctly, it looks like I need to implement the methods of the drawing context interface,