On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > John Clements wrote at 04/28/2011 02:09 AM: > > On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > > > There actually are newlines there in some ways the log is viewed. So > something looks buggy somewhere to me. > > > I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting. I had a look with emacs, and I'm > pretty sure there are no special characters in there. Perhaps I'm > misunderstanding you. > > > My "~/.racket/planet/300/5.1/INSTALL-LOG" on GNU/Linux contains *zero* LF or > CR characters, despite reflecting a few PLaneT packages having been > installed. > > First guess: someone is getting the log text line-by-line without newlines, > and forgetting to add the newlines when sending the lines to the log file. > > If Robby means that his log contains LF and/or CR characters, maybe he's > using a different Racket version, or is on a different host platform.
I meant that if you do "racket -W debug", you'll see newlines. If you look at it in DrRacket's window, you'll see newlines. So I didn't know where John was not seeing newlines. Anyways, I've now pushed a fix for how the log is printed to INSTALL-LOG. Thanks, Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
