Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:49:37 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: > I think there are a non-trival number of people who deal with snips to > process student submissions that it is worth an extra line or two Ok, but let's make it a separate (later) bullet. Racket v

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-10 Thread Robby Findler
I think there are a non-trival number of people who deal with snips to process student submissions that it is worth an extra line or two (that I've put in below) On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Here's a new draft that folds in the contributions so far --- all > edited to v

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-10 Thread Matthew Flatt
Here's a new draft that folds in the contributions so far --- all edited to varying degrees. I left out `racket/snip', because it seems relatively obscure. Racket version 5.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ The most significant change in

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-10 Thread Robby Findler
Got the right score now. > At Wed, 9 Feb 2011 20:32:12 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: >> * Improved Same Game: adjusted the way it draws and the scoring system >>   (current known best is 1300+ can you beat that?) * Improved Same Game: adjusted the way it draws and the scoring system (current know

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-10 Thread Stevie Strickland
On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote: > Stevie: > a04b8d989936e64e29d2ae123da39159c2cdf2e6 >Change instanceof/c to allow more contracts. > >Now instanceof/c no longer checks explicitly for a class/c contract, so >or/c or and/c of class/c contracts succeed. > 92775c5e4ee55986da

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-10 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:03 PM, John Clements wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > >> Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. Here are draft >> bullets for the drawing and GUI libraries: > > I feel like we're missing the forest for the trees: there's a gre

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Robby Findler
* Improved Same Game: adjusted the way it draws and the scoring system (current known best is 1300+ can you beat that?) Robby _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. * The picturing-programs teachpack, formerly installed from PLaneT, is now bundled with the standard distribution. As a result, you can now say (require picturing-programs) instead o

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:28:53 -0700, Jon Rafkind wrote: > Vincent: > 4ac36fd59bc35cb0d60cb050cfaae21d213064c8 > Added the new single-precision float function to TR. > ac76d963b0e4b70c17753b22833c630f3d71cd1b > Enable single-precision floats by default. > 46f086282d7302e7e015109c9f945a92350e3

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Jay McCarthy
2011/2/9 Jon Rafkind : > Here are some items I pulled from the commit log > > Robby: > 823b6629aae7a1c668c2dffb2d89a16fc4a5889c >    add an extra check to make sure drracket is more likely to startup > when things go wrong in strange ways >      Please merge to the 5.1 release branch > ce4bf97bde32

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Jon Rafkind
On 02/09/2011 02:33 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote: >> Here are some items I pulled from the commit log > I'm not sure how you selected these, but some of them aren't even in > the 5.1 release (such as Vincent's changes). > Oh I went too far back

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. * Images created with `2htdp/image' now automatically serialize to PNG files when asked. This means that image examples now render automatically when used in Scribble documentation. --

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote: > Here are some items I pulled from the commit log I'm not sure how you selected these, but some of them aren't even in the 5.1 release (such as Vincent's changes). -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Jon Rafkind
Here are some items I pulled from the commit log Robby: 823b6629aae7a1c668c2dffb2d89a16fc4a5889c add an extra check to make sure drracket is more likely to startup when things go wrong in strange ways Please merge to the 5.1 release branch ce4bf97bde32032b0663c623d8ef1f2158a96fae mon

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread John Clements
On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. Here are draft > bullets for the drawing and GUI libraries: I feel like we're missing the forest for the trees: there's a great big rewrite here, with many benefits. * PLT has completel

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Jay McCarthy
* Web Server --- backwards incompatible change that prevents X-expressions and lists of bytes from being directly returned from servlets. This will increase performance for those types of responses and allow easier experimentation with response types. Please read "PLTHOME/collects/web-server/compat

Re: [racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Robby Findler
Mention racket/snip in the first bullet? Robby On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. Here are draft > bullets for the drawing and GUI libraries: > >  * The `racket/draw' library --- which implements the drawing half the >  

[racket-dev] drafting the v5.1 release announcement

2011-02-09 Thread Matthew Flatt
Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. Here are draft bullets for the drawing and GUI libraries: * The `racket/draw' library --- which implements the drawing half the GUI toolkit --- is a new implementation built on top of the Cairo drawing library and the Pango text-render