Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.2.1, second call

2012-01-24 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Ryan Culpepper r...@cs.utah.edu wrote: * Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com  - Rackunit Tests  - SRFI Tests  - Ensure that all claimed srfi's are in the installer and they all    load into racket or drracket (as appropriate) DONE! N

Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.2, Second Call

2011-10-21 Thread Noel Welsh
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Ryan Culpepper r...@cs.utah.edu wrote: * Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com  - Rackunit Tests  - SRFI Tests  - Ensure that all claimed srfi's are in the installer and they all    load into racket or drracket (as appropriate) Done. N

Re: [racket-dev] Who page

2011-09-05 Thread Noel Welsh
Band sounds more rock'n'roll, which is what we're aiming for. Party on, N. On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Paulo J. Matos pa...@matos-sorge.com wrote: On 03/09/11 19:01, Neil Van Dyke wrote: Finally, Racket is supported by an band of volunteers Maybe initially someone wrote 'an army' and

Re: [racket-dev] Download link

2011-08-14 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: One option is a geoip database that could be used in JS (but all I found was expensive stuff), and another option is to find some known distribution network that does this kind of thing by itself (but again, all I found

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
With the power of asynchronous requests (aka ajax) it is. I've gotta fix Myna first; maybe then I'll have a spare moment to implement it. [Either add a stage to the build process so docs.racket-lang.org gets a different search to the local docs or do an Ajax request to the full text server and,

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: About a minute ago, Noel Welsh wrote: With the power of asynchronous requests (aka ajax) it is. I've gotta fix Myna first; maybe then I'll have a spare moment to implement it. That doesn't help with the goal of standalone

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Ah, if you mean a way to have both kinds of searches work on your installation Yes. Well, the issue was exactly the dependency on an on-line connection and no user-specific docs. For the first, the ajax request should get

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephen Chang stch...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: For online, full-text search, couldn't one just use google and add site:docs.racket-lang.org to the query? Yeah, that seems to do it. The ordering of results is a bit odd sometimes. I don't know the details but Google

Re: [racket-dev] bug czar and documentation king

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
The king is dead -- long live the king! On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: We than Ryan Culpepper (Utah) for his work as bug czar for the past year or so. As of the next release, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (NEU) will take over the bug czar duty. Ryan

Re: [racket-dev] search (was Roogle?)

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
This matches my understanding. N. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: So where does this leave us: 1. with very little data about real searches, which happen locally, via DrRacket  (would it matter if we could do a Guillaume-style data collection

Re: [racket-dev] New plot library [Was: (to Jay) Re: What I'm working on]

2011-08-03 Thread Noel Welsh
This is great -- a better plotting library will make some of work a lot easier. Noel: Do you happen to have a kernel density estimator implementation that uses FFT or is otherwise more efficient than O(n^2)? Currently, (plot2d (density samples)) works, but is slow on large samples. Nope,

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] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.1.2

2011-07-24 Thread Noel Welsh
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Ryan Culpepper r...@cs.utah.edu wrote: * Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com  - Rackunit Tests  - SRFI Tests  - Ensure that all claimed srfi's are in the installer and they all    load into racket or drracket (as appropriate) .done

Re: [racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

2011-05-07 Thread Noel Welsh
You have to contact the Myna server somehow to get suggestions. You can do this via the server or via the client, with the usual tradeoffs. I would go with the JS client as it's much faster to set up, and code the HTML in such a way that it still works if JS is disabled. (This is straightforward,

Re: [racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

2011-05-06 Thread Noel Welsh
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Justin Zamora jus...@zamora.com wrote: A sentence like that would be a good replacement for the awful, Racket is a programming language currently on the front page of racket-lang.org We are men of science; untested hypotheses do not become us. Luckily, your

Re: [racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

2011-05-06 Thread Noel Welsh
hypothesis testing. Myna uses better mathematics to achieve better results. HTH, N. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Justin Zamora jus...@zamora.com wrote: A sentence like that would be a good replacement for the awful, Racket

Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.1.1, second call

2011-04-26 Thread Noel Welsh
Ok, thanks. That's 90% of the work done. N. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Ryan Culpepper ry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I just ran the test scripts for Rackunit and the SRFIs without problems, so I'm marking your items as done. Ryan _ For

Re: [racket-dev] location of foldts?

2011-03-07 Thread Noel Welsh
Yes, something like that seems the right solution. N. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: The rackunit foldts seems test-suite specific so perhaps it should be called foldts-test-suite (similar to fold-test-results). Robby

[racket-dev] Racktest was: OMG the thread that will never die about testing

2011-02-20 Thread Noel Welsh
Here's a proposal that attempts to synthesise prior discussion. It support the features I want without imposing overhead on Eli. ;; Base Types (define-type (Dict Key Value) (U (HashTable Key Value) (Listof (Pair Key Value (define-type Name (Listof Symbol)) (define-type Info (Dict Symbol

Re: [racket-dev] Racktest was: OMG the thread that will never die about testing

2011-02-20 Thread Noel Welsh
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Ryan Culpepper ry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I predict that if we continue, this discussion will devolve into an exchange of too simple! too simple! and too complex! too complex!. No, that's where we started. ;-P I thought my proposal quite elegantly combined the

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] tests/eli-tester feedback (Was: Racket unit testing)

2011-02-15 Thread Noel Welsh
[Trimmed Neil from CCs] On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: * It uses TR -- but it has to be very minimal.  (*Extremely* minimal,  since it's a candidate for inclusion in the `racket' language, which  is why I was thinking of not much more than agreed

Re: [racket-dev] sxml package takeover/updates?

2011-02-15 Thread Noel Welsh
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:52 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: Opinions? Does anyone feel strongly about preserving the cross-platform nature of the current library? Nope. Racketizing the library would be good. N. _ For

Re: [racket-dev] call for ideas

2011-02-09 Thread Noel Welsh
An addition to my earlier post: We're shifting to using Chef (opscode.com) for deployment to all our production servers. Chef works like this: - you write recipes, which specify how to install and configure a particular service (e.g. Racket) - for each type of machine you specify the recipes

Re: [racket-dev] call for ideas

2011-02-08 Thread Noel Welsh
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: We have decided to reorganize the systems maintenance tasks over the next few months. Part of the goal is to modernize, and part of the goal is to give Eli more time for real projects. Good plan. - DNS What's

Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.1

2011-02-07 Thread Noel Welsh
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Ryan Culpepper ry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: * Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com  - Rackunit Tests  - SRFI Tests  - Ensure that all claimed srfi's are in the installer and they all    load into racket or drracket (as appropriate) DONE. N

Re: [racket-dev] How to represent the startline in Lexer SRE Operators ??

2011-02-07 Thread Noel Welsh
I don't think you can do with just the lexer (it has been a while since I used it). I suggest representing newlines in your AST, and using the parser to deal with newline + whatever tokens in an appropriate way. HTH, N. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:45 PM, jenny sun jenny.sun.jenny@gmail.com

Re: [racket-dev] Compiling latest pre-release on Ubuntu

2011-01-24 Thread Noel Welsh
Different kernel, same Ubuntu: $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l $ uname -r 2.6.32-24-server Is your box 64-bit? If not, that might indicate the issue: $ uname -a Linux kahu 2.6.32-24-server #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 16:05:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux It's also running in a VM. N.

Re: [racket-dev] racket-lang down?

2011-01-21 Thread Noel Welsh
It's dead dead dead for me and others on IRC. N. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu wrote: its working for me. i just submitted a bug, too. On 01/19/2011 04:44 PM, John Clements wrote: It looks like racket-lang.org is down. John

Re: [racket-dev] Building without docs

2011-01-20 Thread Noel Welsh
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: There are a bunch of comments in raco's main.rkt about absolutely never ever creating a .zo for this file.  Does this call to racket create such a file? I can check, but not till tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.

Re: [racket-dev] Building without docs

2011-01-18 Thread Noel Welsh
For posterity, this works: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: You can also set PLT_SETUP_OPTIONS to -D and then make install will avoid building the docs. This does not: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@ccs.neu.edu

Re: [racket-dev] Building without docs

2011-01-17 Thread Noel Welsh
Well, that didn't work, but we've decided to upgrade to Racket anyway :) What's the equivalent process for Racket? Thanks, N. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: At Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:29:03 +, Noel Welsh wrote: I'm trying to build 4.2.2 without

[racket-dev] Building without docs

2011-01-12 Thread Noel Welsh
Hi all, I'm trying to build 4.2.2 without building the docs. I thought I could just run make and then setup-plt -D, but make does not install the binaries. Looking through the Makefile did not lead to enlightenment. Any suggestions? Thanks, N. PS: FWIW, I'm writing a Chef

[racket-dev] Search logs

2011-01-09 Thread Noel Welsh
Hi, Can I get access to (some of) the search logs for the online docs? I'd like to do some analysis of what people are searching for and see if I can come up with anything interesting. Ta, N. _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket-dev] Git

2011-01-05 Thread Noel Welsh
+1 The learning curve isn't great, but the more I learn about git the more I like it. N. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: Me too! Git is great now. Jay 2011/1/5 Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu: Thanks to everyone whose efforts and patience helped

Re: [racket-dev] Adding alpha to color%

2010-12-31 Thread Noel Welsh
Great, thanks! N. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Done. At Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:44:59 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote: I would like to add alpha to `color%', but I haven't gotten around to it. _ For

Re: [racket-dev] enter! verbosity

2010-12-11 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Yesterday, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote: On 10.12.10 21:05, Noel Welsh wrote: It is moderately useful to see what is reloaded if you renter enter! ... I

Re: [racket-dev] enter! verbosity

2010-12-10 Thread Noel Welsh
It is moderately useful to see what is reloaded if you renter enter! N. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Whenever I use enter! in racket, it spews a huge list of notifications of every file being loaded.  Is there any reason for this?  It seems like a

Re: [racket-dev] Fixing uncertified context error in in-vector

2010-12-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: ... For now, just export `normalise-inputs'. Ryan and I are looking to an overhaul of syntax certificates. An easy fix. I'll do that. Also, you're using `unsafe-fx...' on numbers that haven't been checked to be fixnums

Re: [racket-dev] Fixing uncertified context error in in-vector

2010-12-05 Thread Noel Welsh
Ah, I'll fix that up. That's 3 bugs in the code so far. AFAIK none have yet been found in practice! N. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: Yes, but the `unsafe-fx' operations that I'm concerned about are the ones checking whether an index is valid:  

Re: [racket-dev] Refactoring in-vector and friends

2010-12-03 Thread Noel Welsh
I've merged the changes back into for.rkt and pushed the changes. This is just refactoring the in-vector code. I'll do a separate commit when I modify in-fXvector. And yes, tests all pass :) N. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 1. At this level, I think

Re: [racket-dev] Refactoring in-vector and friends

2010-12-03 Thread Noel Welsh
changes. If not, I guess I better rebuild from source. N. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote: I've merged the changes back into for.rkt and pushed the changes. This is just refactoring the in-vector code. I'll do a separate commit when I modify in-fXvector

Re: [racket-dev] Refactoring in-vector and friends

2010-12-03 Thread Noel Welsh
That's the problem -- doing a full rebuild has fixed it. in-flvector and in-fxvector have been extended (and doc'ed and tested), and I also optimised some of the code to use unsafe ops. The vector defns in ffi/vector.rkt should probably use these tools to provide sequence abstractions, but I'm

[racket-dev] Refactoring in-vector and friends

2010-12-01 Thread Noel Welsh
Hi all, I spent (far too much) time this morning refactoring the definition of in-vector to expose the building blocks to compose these macro/functions. After refactoring the code for defining in-vector is: (define-:vector-like-gen :vector-gen unsafe-vector-ref) (define-in-vector-like

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-27 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to remove the implicit preference the Web Server gives to Xexprs and the old esoteric bytes response format. Seems like a good move to me. If a framework wants to privilege some response type over others

Re: [racket-dev] Adding alpha to color%

2010-11-24 Thread Noel Welsh
Thanks. If I get the time I'll take a crack at it. N. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: I would like to add alpha to `color%', but I haven't gotten around to it. _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.0.2, second call

2010-10-27 Thread Noel Welsh
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Ryan Culpepper ry...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: * Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com  - Rackunit Tests  - SRFI Tests  - Ensure that all claimed srfi's are in the installer and they all    load into racket or drracket (as appropriate) DONE N

Re: [racket-dev] Release for v5.0.2 has begun

2010-10-21 Thread Noel Welsh
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Doug Williams m.douglas.willi...@gmail.com wrote: Noel and Neil, were the unsafe-flround and unsafe-fllog problems you saw just with the newer nightly builds or with the released version of Racket? [I haven't had any problems with the released versions.]

Re: [racket-dev] ssh g...@git.racket-lang.org requires password

2010-10-12 Thread Noel Welsh
I think those instructions are for committeerrss. You will probably have a better experience overall if you go with the github mirror: http://github.com/plt/racket To clone this just issue git clone http://github.com/plt/racket.git HTH, N. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Horace Dynamite

[racket-dev] Possible build platform for ARM

2010-10-07 Thread Noel Welsh
Some time ago Jay asked if anyone had a hardware suggestion for an ARM PC. I don't think anyone answered; in my case that was because there wasn't a capable device that I knew of. The Pandaboard -- http://pandaboard.org/ -- which is supposed to start shipping this month looks like it might be

Re: [racket-dev] flonum vs. inexact-real

2010-10-03 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: With the current memory manager, I don't think there's any potential space gain from using 32-bit floats instead of 64-bit floats. Is there any other reason to use 32-bit floating point? In theory one can get better

Re: [racket-dev] RFC: Coding Guidelines

2010-09-02 Thread Noel Welsh
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Well -- you do, in a sense.  When something is broken, someone needs to fix it.  There's tons of stuff that is (or has) bitrotting away since there's no proper owner to take care of some code, or bugs in code with no clear

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #20898: master branch updated

2010-08-23 Thread Noel Welsh
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Will M. Farr wmf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for sharing your code, and for the comments.  Let me see if I understand this correctly: the following code should produce a total, a vector whose elements are the partial sums of elements at lower indices than

Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT Library of Iterations/Comprehensions

2010-08-22 Thread Noel Welsh
Hi Will, My numerics package on Github has for/vector with some slight extensions to yours. I think it also has more error checking so you might want to look at it. I also have for/fold/vector and some sequence abstractions. The code is all parameterised at expansion time by the vector

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #20898: master branch updated

2010-08-22 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Will M. Farr wmf...@gmail.com wrote: Matthew co, ... I'll make sure to throw a syntax error if I see a #:when in the for-clauses, and I think I should give up on the for*/vector #:length variant.  I was hoping that you would have some sort of neat trick to