Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? Robby Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available packages. How about: Racket version 6.0 comes with a new package system,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
Okay, new version below. Thanks! If there is a drdr graph that shows the 50% jump, I'd like to add that pointer into the notes in the bullet you added, eg: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some large programs. See, for example: http://drdr.racket-lang.org/./bigfile.rkt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
The graph is at: http://drdr.racket-lang.org/28051/pkgs/typed-racket-pkgs/typed-racket-test/tests/typed-racket/succeed/new-metrics.rkt Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Okay, new version below. Thanks! If there is a drdr graph that shows

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
How about this bullet: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.eduwrote: The graph is at:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Looks good. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: How about this bullet: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I would omit 'now' (that's the whole point of a release announcement) and I'd avoid the dangling comparison with the Typed Racket compilation improved by 50% on some typed programs; see http:// ... On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Looks

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Vincent St-Amour
These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous release notes discussion, Jay and Neil had some bullets that I don't see on this list. There

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Use 'compiler performance' Avoid 'faster' without 'than' On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: I don't like the use of compilation here, but I'm happy to drop now. Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
I don't like the use of compilation here, but I'm happy to drop now. Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I would omit 'now' (that's the whole point of a release announcement) and I'd avoid the dangling comparison with the Typed Racket

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour stamo...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous release

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind writing it? Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: Use 'compiler performance' Avoid 'faster' without 'than' On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
* Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind writing it? Robby On Mon,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
-- the performance of the Typed Racket compiler improved by 50% on some typed programs; see http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z see http:// ... On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
faster than what? On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: * Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
I took Matthias's for now. :) faster than light, I think. Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: faster than what? On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: * Typed Racket is 50% faster when type

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:06 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: [1 text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)] On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour stamo...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28054: master branch updated

2014-01-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
4d44878 Asumu Takikawa as...@racket-lang.org 2014-01-06 17:47 : | Move `chomp` function into its own util file : A pkgs/typed-racket-pkgs/typed-racket-lib/typed-racket/utils/string.rkt M .../typed-racket-lib/typed-racket/utils/tc-utils.rkt | 8 +--- Why not (string-trim s

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28054: master branch updated

2014-01-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
I think it's really `(string-tring s \n #:left? #f)`. Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 4d44878 Asumu Takikawa as...@racket-lang.org 2014-01-06 17:47 : | Move `chomp` function into its own util file : A

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28054: master branch updated

2014-01-13 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2014-01-13 16:40:17 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote: Why not (string-trim s #:left? #f) ? Only because I didn't know it existed. Thanks! Cheers, Asumu _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28054: master branch updated

2014-01-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: I think it's really `(string-tring s \n #:left? #f)`. Yes, but IIUC, the function that Asumu wrote is for tweaking output strings, which makes `string-trim' relevant, and my guess is that the extra trimming that it makes (other whitespaces, and any

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks! I didn't include the DrRacket one, since I have more plans for that and would like to hold off announcing it until I get those things done (notably better some color-blindness color schemes, but also other tweaks to make color schemes just work better in general). Robby On Mon, Jan 13,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
-- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to longer on-line announcements? On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Thanks! I didn't include the

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
Here's the latest draft. Robby Racket 5.92 has a new package system, including a catalog of hundreds of already-available packages. Please visit http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ for an overview of the packages. Recent releases included the beta versions of the package system. Racket version 6.0

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

2014-01-13 Thread Robby Findler
I think this is reasonably short for a 3x release cycle. Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.eduwrote: -- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to longer