Re: [racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

2012-11-12 Thread Robby Findler
I expect we can do a better job in planet2 than we are doing in planet1 and I am in favor of trying to find that balance. I would be unhappy, however, if we end up with a system where you have to grovel around in low-level places to get simple uses of uninstalled packages working. That is, I want

Re: [racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

2012-11-12 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > I have one larger design issue, which I want to write up in a separate mail. The larger issue is that we should allow packages to have their own versions of other packages/collections/etc, specified in their metadata file. This would b

Re: [racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

2012-11-12 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Robby Findler > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstad

Re: [racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

2012-11-12 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt >>> wrote: >>> * I think the auto-installing module resolver me

Re: [racket-dev] Racket doesn't compile without cairo

2012-11-12 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:44:44 +0100, Marijn wrote: > On 11-11-12 18:06, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote: > >> On 11/09/2012 08:33 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > >>> > >>> Marijn: if this is a problem, you might get around it by > >>> avoiding the documentation build, but maybe not

[racket-dev] ffi/com performance in Racket 5.3 vs 5.3.1

2012-11-12 Thread Antonio Menezes Leitao
Hi, I have just made some benchmarks regarding the new ffi/com and recent optimizations done by Matthew and the results I got on a selection of problems are the following: Problem 5.3 5.3.1 A 3790 1191 B 4696 3991 C 5170 3260 D 6916 6740 E 8804 8614 F 10290 3532 G 16992 5583 H 33262 6121 I 38467

Re: [racket-dev] Racket doesn't compile without cairo

2012-11-12 Thread Marijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-11-12 18:06, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote: >> On 11/09/2012 08:33 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: >>> >>> Marijn: if this is a problem, you might get around it by >>> avoiding the documentation build, but maybe not -- I think that

Re: [racket-dev] Racket doesn't compile without cairo

2012-11-12 Thread Marijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09-11-12 16:33, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Four hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Marijn wrote: >>> I've had a report that building racket without X doesn't work >>> if cairo is not installed. Presumably in this mo

Re: [racket-dev] cstruct and properties

2012-11-12 Thread Tobias Hammer
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:39:07 +0100, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:00:51 +0100, Tobias Hammer wrote: i am currently playing around with properties attached to cstructs and ran into some problems. Normally, with racket structs, i can access a property without an instance of t