Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-03 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 2, Jay McCarthy wrote: > We should try to make sure that only commit messages from commits in > the release branch are considered for the release notes process. Do > we a script that does it or does someone pick through them manually? The basic set of log messages is retrieved properly, an

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-03 Thread Matthias Felleisen
The repl bug is a general bug that requires a systematic change to things. It also hurts Typed Racket and other things. On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Michael Sperber wrote: > > Matthias Felleisen writes: > >> I found two things so far: >> >> 1. the basic signatures are lowercase in t

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Sperber
Also, the DMdA "list" signature is called "list-of" for HtDP. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Sperber
Matthias Felleisen writes: > I found two things so far: > > 1. the basic signatures are lowercase in the docs, but are uppercase >for real. They are lowercase in the docs because they're lower-case in the DMdA languages. They're only uppercase in the HtDP languages. (You may remember tha

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-03 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Michael Sperber wrote: > > Matthias Felleisen writes: > >> works in Beginner. It turns out however that even the German docs are >> broken. I should have explored more when Mike merged this in. Then >> again, I doubt we will have many Americans reading these docs. >

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Sperber
Matthias Felleisen writes: > works in Beginner. It turns out however that even the German docs are > broken. I should have explored more when Mike merged this in. Then > again, I doubt we will have many Americans reading these docs. What's broken? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigu

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Jay McCarthy
We should try to make sure that only commit messages from commits in the release branch are considered for the release notes process. Do we a script that does it or does someone pick through them manually? Jay On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Eli: are you saying that those

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Robby Findler
Eli: are you saying that those commits were not included in the testing bundles? If so, why do we need to re-run the release tests? (Or is there something else?) Robby On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > On Aug  2, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Eli Barz

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 2, Jay McCarthy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > On Aug  2, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > >> On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >> > >> > And for the (near) future -- figure out what's happenning in the > >> >  teaching languages.  I get the imp

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Just to make sure: Signatures are included because they were merged into the trunk before the branch was done. For example, (define int (signature Real)) (: x int) (define x 3) works in Beginner. It turns out however that even the German docs are broken. I should have explored more when

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Jay McCarthy
That's fine with me. I wrote the release note addendum because the original email contained the blurb, not because I'm stressing about putting it in. Jay On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Mon, 2 Aug 2010 04:42:41 -0600, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> These are the commits: > > Th

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Mon, 2 Aug 2010 04:42:41 -0600, Jay McCarthy wrote: > These are the commits: Those are from July 22, one week after the branch for 5.0.1, so they would not normally be considered candidates for the 5.0.1 release. _ For list-related administrati

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > On Aug  2, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: >> >> > And for the (near) future -- figure out what's happenning in the >> >  teaching languages.  I get the impression that things are moving >> >  there

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 2, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > > And for the (near) future -- figure out what's happenning in the > > teaching languages. I get the impression that things are moving > > there almost randomly. > > No, this isn't random; it is unsynchr

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > And for the (near) future -- figure out what's happenning in the > teaching languages. I get the impression that things are moving > there almost randomly. No, this isn't random; it is unsynchronized: -- Shriram asked Jay to add define-dat

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Signatures are documented but in German. It is on my list to 'translate' this for the next release. -- Matthias On Aug 2, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I don't know anything about signatures, since they're not documented > or advertised. > > I don't know why it isn't included... I

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 2, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I don't know anything about signatures, since they're not documented > or advertised. > > I don't know why it isn't included... I thought the patch was cherry > picked. I didn't test it in the release because I added the tests > for the feature to tests/racket/adva

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Jay McCarthy
I don't know anything about signatures, since they're not documented or advertised. I don't know why it isn't included... I thought the patch was cherry picked. I didn't test it in the release because I added the tests for the feature to tests/racket/advanced.rktl Jay On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:49

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Sperber
Eli Barzilay writes: > I don't know of any plan for signatures, but if it would be bad to > advertise it if it's not included... Jay/Ryan--?? Signatures are already in there (look in the log in collects/lang) - they're just not documented yet. They already give you this, for example: (define

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 2, Michael Sperber wrote: > Sorry, I'm just seeing this now: > > Eli Barzilay writes: > > > Final version, after some edits and reorganization. > > * The Advanced Student Language now supports hash-table > > primitives, `define-datatype' for defining sets of related > > structs, and

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Sperber
Sorry, I'm just seeing this now: Eli Barzilay writes: > Final version, after some edits and reorganization. > * The Advanced Student Language now supports hash-table primitives, > `define-datatype' for defining sets of related structs, and > `match' for pattern matching. Is it a good idea

[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

2010-08-01 Thread Eli Barzilay
Final version, after some edits and reorganization. -- * Datalog is a lightweight deductive database system with Racket integration. It is now available in the `datalog' collection and with `#lang datalog'. * Racklog provide

[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- near final

2010-07-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
This is the final list, please see if you have any more changes -- specifically, the order is pretty much random. -- * Changes (as part of 5.0) in the `racket' language compared to the `scheme' language include constructor-style

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-28 Thread Ryan Culpepper
Eli Barzilay wrote: The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please send edits or (changes in order) if you see anything. Still needed: Ryan: * Any public (and documented) syntax/parse & macro debugger additions? * macro-debugger/emit? * GUI for rackunit

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-28 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:26 PM, David Van Horn wrote: >> >> * The core type system of Typed Racket has been substantially >> revised. In particular, Typed Racket can now follow significantly >> more sophisticated reasoning about the relationships between >> predicates. Additionally, Typed

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-28 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:17:59 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > * By default `make install' and `raco setup' compile collections in > parallel on all available processors. (Use `reaco setup -j 1' to > disable if necessary.) "reaco" -> "raco" _ For

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-27 Thread David Van Horn
On 7/27/10 11:17 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please send edits or (changes in order) if you see anything. * Changes (as part of 5.0) in the `racket' language compared to the `scheme' language include constructor-style printing, a `st

[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-27 Thread Eli Barzilay
The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please send edits or (changes in order) if you see anything. Still needed: Ryan: * Any public (and documented) syntax/parse & macro debugger additions? * macro-debugger/emit? * GUI for rackunit? ---

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-27 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Kevin Tew wrote: >> On Jul 27, Kevin Tew wrote: >> >>> >>> Parallel-build is somewhat behind the scenes.  I would delay talking >>> about it until the next release which will include -j documentation >>> and parallel rendering of docs. Shouldn't the docs be merge

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-27 Thread Kevin Tew
How is this: By default make install and raco setup build collects in parallel on all available processors. Use env PLT_SETUP_OPTIONS="-j 1" make install or raco setup -j 1 to build using only one processor. Kevin On 07/27/2010 10:06 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: On Jul 27, Kevin Tew wrote:

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-27 Thread Eli Barzilay
Kevin & Ryan -- ? > Kevin: > > * Parallel build > > Ryan: > > * Any public (and documented) syntax/parse & macro debugger > additions? > > * macro-debugger/emit? > > * GUI for rackunit? -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-26 Thread Casey Klein
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > Casey: > >  * Redex news? > Nothing noteworthy. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Flatt
I'm not sure that any of my items make sense for a release announcement, but if we need to give a sense that something interesting happened toward the release, here's an attempt to collect the most interesting changes into a couple of bullets: * Changes (as part of 5.0) in the `racket' language

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-24 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Some suggested items below, if you have items, please mail me text > that describes those that you think should be mentioned, and verify > that the rest should not. > -- > Mat

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-23 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Jul 23, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > Some suggested items below, if you have items, please mail me text > > that describes those that you think should be mentioned, and verify > > that the rest should not. > > I feel like we should menti

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-23 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Some suggested items below, if you have items, please mail me text > that describes those that you think should be mentioned, and verify > that the rest should not. I feel like we should mention items that were released in v5.0, since none of

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-23 Thread Robby Findler
Chaperones are not yet, I'd say. Flipping was the frequently requested 2htdp/image thing that's new in this release (I think it is new anyways). Not just bitmaps, but all 2htdp/images. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Some suggested items below, if you have items, please ma

[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

2010-07-23 Thread Eli Barzilay
Some suggested items below, if you have items, please mail me text that describes those that you think should be mentioned, and verify that the rest should not. -- Matthew: * sha1 functionality (default from openssl, also a rack