Suggested release announcement follows, with crappy descriptions that
I added as an initial skeleton. Please tell me which ones need to be
removed, send suggested edits including order changes, and tell me
about things that are not included.
* Racket now comes with "places" -- a different approac
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> * Simplified error messages in student languages, and use colors to
> add visual information (see the teachpack manual for guidelines on
> writing teachpacks). (Is this the right place? IIRC it moved.)
I don't believe the colors are imp
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> * Simplified error messages in student languages, and use colors to
> add visual information (see the teachpack manual for guidelines on
> writing teachpacks). (Is this the right place? IIRC it moved.)
>
"
* The error messages in the stud
At Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:57:06 -0400,
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> > * Sam, Vincent: TR news? (Many new types from Eric Dobson?
> > Optimizer logs?)
>
> Almost all core Racket data structures and operations now work with
> Typed Racket (most of this work is due to prolific contributor Eric
> Dobson
About a minute ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
>
> I'd add:
> - The performance of the Typed Racket typechecker has been
> significantly improved.
OK.
> - Typed Racket now optimizes at the REPL and inside typed regions.
This sounds too uninteresting for most users.
> - Typed Racket now provid
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> About a minute ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
>> - Typed Racket now optimizes at the REPL and inside typed regions.
>
> This sounds too uninteresting for most users.
Have we run out of space for release notes? This certainly isn't as
important
Correct, no colors.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>
>
>> * Simplified error messages in student languages, and use colors to
>> add visual information (see the teachpack manual for guidelines on
>> writing tea
On Monday, August 1, 2011, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>> About a minute ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
>>> - Typed Racket now optimizes at the REPL and inside typed regions.
>>
>> This sounds too uninteresting for most users.
>
> Have we run out
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Robby Findler
wrote:
>
> On Monday, August 1, 2011, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>> About a minute ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
- Typed Racket now optimizes at the REPL and inside typed regions.
>>>
>>> Th
Ah. That does help. And seems Borderline for the release notes.
Robby
On Monday, August 1, 2011, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Robby Findler
> wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, August 1, 2011, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eli Barzilay wro
15 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> Ah. That does help. And seems Borderline for the release notes.
Actually, I thought that this was always part of the optimizer. In
any case, I think that it's borderline because REPL optimizations are
probably not something that people would be aware of and
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> `with-type'
> sounds too specific to be broadly applicable.
`with-type' allows embedding typed regions inside arbitrary other
blocks of untyped code -- it's certainly generally applicable.
> (And BTW, there *is* limited space for release note
Some initial drafts, maybe too long:
* The download page includes distributions for 64-bit Windows, Mac OS
X, and two Debian flavors.
* Racket now includes a new `racket/place' library to support
parallelism as a complement the existing `racket/future' library.
Racket's parallel build
At Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:03:21 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> There's certainly limited space for the most prominent elements of the
> release notes. But I think the right solution there is to pick some
> small number of items (say, 5) that are most significant, and
> highlight them. Then much
15 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Some initial drafts, maybe too long:
> [...]
> > * Most "body" contexts (function body, `cond', etc) accept a mix of
> > definitions and expressions.
>
> Wasn't that in v5.0.1? Or did you have in mind the recent changes
> that are not in v5.1.2? Or somethin
15 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> My preference is that *release notes* in the docs/distribution have no
> limit, but a *release announcement* includes highlights only.
>
> Few parts of our distribution currently have release notes:
>
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/release/index.html
>
>
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:03:21 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> There's certainly limited space for the most prominent elements of the
>> release notes. But I think the right solution there is to pick some
>> small number of items (say, 5) t
40 minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > `with-type' sounds too specific to be broadly applicable.
>
> `with-type' allows embedding typed regions inside arbitrary other
> blocks of untyped code -- it's certainly generally applicable.
I
The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
mail me new items and/or edits.
Robby and Jay -- two pending items:
? New racket/contract/combinator library and some contract module
reorganization (this is in 21cbd9ad)
? New `scriblib/bibtex' that can read bibliographic da
No, not mine. (the bibtex lib sounds worth including to me)
On Monday, August 1, 2011, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
> mail me new items and/or edits.
>
> Robby and Jay -- two pending items:
>
> ? New racket/contract/combinator library
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