Re: [racket-dev] skip release

2012-04-23 Thread Neil Van Dyke
One opinion: I appreciate the diligence and caution. That Racket's releases are high quality is one of the attractions of the platform. I can wait a few more months for submodules. Neil V. -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/ _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-

[racket-dev] skip release

2012-04-23 Thread Matthias Felleisen
We (release management) are thinking of skipping this release and wanted to see if anyone minded first. Below is a possible message we would send to justify this to the external folk. Dear Racketeers, as we are preparing the v5.3 release, we notice unexplored corners of new and revised fea

Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3

2012-04-23 Thread Danny Yoo
> * Danny Yoo >  - Whalesong Tests (confirm that Whalesong runs from PLaneT) I'm currently blocked on this. Whalesong depends on "#lang planet" to work, but due to a bug, I haven't been able to make progress on running the tests. There is a a patch in master (http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/com

Re: [racket-dev] memory issues

2012-04-23 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Apr 23, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Stephen Bloch wrote: >> For example, I start DrRacket from the command line: the window opens, then >> spends 15 seconds gc-ing before showing the "Welcome" message. Memory usage >> 162.50 MB. >> Open ".../co

[racket-dev] memory issues

2012-04-23 Thread Robby Findler
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Stephen Bloch wrote: > For example, I start DrRacket from the command line: the window opens, then > spends 15 seconds gc-ing before showing the "Welcome" message.  Memory usage > 162.50 MB. > Open ".../collects/picturing-programs/tests/rotating-triangle.rkt"; no