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

[racket-dev] polling select in racket

2011-02-09 Thread jenny sun
Hi, Can Racket access to system calls like select () in unix? or there are there APIs that can check channel data ready or not? e.g. socket's data whether ready to read or write or not? Thanks, _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket-dev] response/sxml ?

2011-02-09 Thread Jay McCarthy
It does not. I removed the preference for xexprs with the assumption that others would write efficient response functions for other popular formats. Jay 2011/2/9 John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org: I'm scrumbling through the web server source, and it looks to me like there's a

Re: [racket-dev] polling select in racket

2011-02-09 Thread Jakub Piotr Cłapa
On 09.02.11 01:40, jenny sun wrote: Hi, Can Racket access to system calls like select () in unix? or there are there APIs that can check channel data ready or not? e.g. socket's data whether ready to read or write or not? You've got excellent replies for your question but I would also suggest

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 mfl...@cs.utah.edu 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

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

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

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 rafk...@cs.utah.edu 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 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu 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

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

2011-02-09 Thread Jay McCarthy
2011/2/9 Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu: 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

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. 46f086282d7302e7e015109c9f945a92350e384c

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