Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

I think this is reasonably short for a 3x release cycle. Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > -- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) > -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to > longer on-line announcem

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

Here's the latest draft. Robby Racket 5.92 has a new package system, including a catalog of hundreds of already-available packages. Please visit http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ for an overview of the packages. Recent releases included the "beta" versions of the package system. Racket version 6.

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

-- please no 'now's (every bullet in Vincent's wording includes it) -- didn't we say at some point we want to keep things short and point to longer on-line announcements? On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Thanks! > > I didn't include the DrRacket one, since I ha

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

Thanks! I didn't include the DrRacket one, since I have more plans for that and would like to hold off announcing it until I get those things done (notably better some color-blindness color schemes, but also other tweaks to make color schemes just work better in general). Robby On Mon, Jan 13,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

At Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:06 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour > wrote: > > > These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. > > > > Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, > > I would have expe

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

I took Matthias's for now. :) faster than light, I think. Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > faster than what? > > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > wrote: > > > * Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. > > For exam

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

faster than what? On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > * Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. > For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z > > Sam > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler > wrote: >> I'll wait for an actual new bullet here,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

* Typed Racket is 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind > writing it? > > Robby > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:0

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

-- the performance of the Typed Racket compiler improved by 50% on some typed programs; see http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z > > >> see http:// ... On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind > writing it? > > Robb

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

I'll wait for an actual new bullet here, if one of Sam/Matthias doesn't mind writing it? Robby On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Use 'compiler performance' > > Avoid 'faster' without 'than' > > > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > wrote: > > > I

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. > > Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, > I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous > release notes discussion, Ja

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

I don't like the use of "compilation" here, but I'm happy to drop "now". Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I would omit 'now' (that's the whole point of a release announcement) and I'd > avoid the dangling comparison with > > the Typed Racket compilation impro

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

Use 'compiler performance' Avoid 'faster' without 'than' On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > I don't like the use of "compilation" here, but I'm happy to drop "now". > > Sam > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen > wrote: >> >> I would omit 'now

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

These release notes look good to me, but maybe a bit short. Since this is our first release with new features since 5.3.4 last May, I would have expected a longer list. For example, during the previous release notes discussion, Jay and Neil had some bullets that I don't see on this list. There als

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

I would omit 'now' (that's the whole point of a release announcement) and I'd avoid the dangling comparison with the Typed Racket compilation improved by 50% on some typed programs; see http:// ... On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Looks good. > > On Mon, J

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

Looks good. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > How about this bullet: > > * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some programs. >For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z > > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > wrote: >> >> The graph is at:

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

How about this bullet: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some programs. For example: http://bit.ly/1d0Ye4z On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > The graph is at: > > http://drdr.racket-lang.org/28051/pkgs/typed-racket-pkgs/typed-racket-test/tests/t

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

The graph is at: http://drdr.racket-lang.org/28051/pkgs/typed-racket-pkgs/typed-racket-test/tests/typed-racket/succeed/new-metrics.rkt Sam On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > Okay, new version below. Thanks! > > If there is a drdr graph that shows the 50% jump, I'd like to a

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

Okay, new version below. Thanks! If there is a drdr graph that shows the 50% jump, I'd like to add that pointer into the notes in the bullet you added, eg: * Typed Racket is now 50% faster when type checking some large programs. See, for example: http://drdr.racket-lang.org/./bigfile.rkt

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? > > Robby > > > > Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available > packages. How about: "Racket version 6.0 comes with a new package system, including a catalog o

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

I had hoped that that was going to be the correct url because " doc.racket-lang.org/pkg" is the top of the packages docs and the v5.92 packages documentation has a "getting-started.html" file. Robby On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > > It would be nice if the docs url

Re: [racket-dev] release notes draft

It would be nice if the docs url were functional. -- Matthias On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? > > Robby > > > > Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available > packages. Please visit > > ht

[racket-dev] release notes draft

Below is the latest release notes draft. Comments? Robby Racket has a new package system, including a catalog of already available packages. Please visit http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ for an overview. Recent releases included the "beta" versions of the package system. Racket version 6.0 inco

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

Thanks! On Wednesday, December 25, 2013, Eric Dobson wrote: > Added a rackunit HISTORY.txt file. > > ec75e9ae0838dfb25e5c92a4c011bd63145cbbdc > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Robby Findler > > wrote: > > I think you should consider starting one (assuming you've not already). > > > > Robby > >

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

Added a rackunit HISTORY.txt file. ec75e9ae0838dfb25e5c92a4c011bd63145cbbdc On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I think you should consider starting one (assuming you've not already). > > Robby > > > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Neil Toronto > wrote: >> >> False. >> >>

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I think you should consider starting one (assuming you've not already). Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Neil Toronto wrote: > False. > > > On 12/21/2013 07:33 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> ∃ relevant(HISTORY.txt) ? >> >> Robby >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Neil Toronto >

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False. On 12/21/2013 07:33 PM, Robby Findler wrote: ∃ relevant(HISTORY.txt) ? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Neil Toronto mailto:neil.toro...@gmail.com>> wrote: Every existing, relevant HISTORY.txt was updated. :D Neil ⊥ On 12/21/2013 06:08 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

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∃ relevant(HISTORY.txt) ? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Neil Toronto wrote: > Every existing, relevant HISTORY.txt was updated. :D > > Neil ⊥ > > > On 12/21/2013 06:08 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> Did an appropriate HISTORY.txt file get updated with these? >> >> Robby >> >> >> On Sat,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

Every existing, relevant HISTORY.txt was updated. :D Neil ⊥ On 12/21/2013 06:08 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Did an appropriate HISTORY.txt file get updated with these? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Neil Toronto mailto:neil.toro...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 12/19/2013 07:41 PM, Robby F

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

Did an appropriate HISTORY.txt file get updated with these? Robby On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Neil Toronto wrote: > On 12/19/2013 07:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> Neil \bot: point-label3d >> > > * Plot: Added plot/no-gui, plot/pict and plot/bitmap for non-GUI uses >(such as documen

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On 12/19/2013 07:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Neil \bot: point-label3d * Plot: Added plot/no-gui, plot/pict and plot/bitmap for non-GUI uses (such as documentation building), and point-label3d. Neil \bot: math library improvements (docs in 6525e8f7 other stuff?) * Math: math/flonum expo

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At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: > Sam, Vincent: errortrace-based profiling * The profiler provides a new mode that uses the Errortrace library to produce more fine-grained profiles. (Also added a history file for the profiler, commit 15b333a0a6517 ) > Vincent: contract

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Okay, done. Robby On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Ah. I think you should do it :) > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robby Findler > wrote: > > I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file > > somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind d

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

Ah. I think you should do it :) On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file > somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind doing it? > > Robby > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay McCarthy > wrote: >> >>

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I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind doing it? Robby On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robby Findler > wrote: > > I understand that one can reasonably view t

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I understand that one can reasonably view these as bug fixes. Nevertheless, > they affect observable behavior of the functions in a way that could > possibly break others code (as opposed to more "obvious" bug fixes that are > likely to only

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

I understand that one can reasonably view these as bug fixes. Nevertheless, they affect observable behavior of the functions in a way that could possibly break others code (as opposed to more "obvious" bug fixes that are likely to only affect others' code by fixing problems with it). So these shou

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Jay, Jan Dvořák: formlet improvements * web-server/formlets supports generic input formlets and strings on all formlet default values. > Jay: Host and Content-Length headers in http-client.rkt: > (dc8f52dbb1e3ca48622629a76000b5fea021697d)

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> >> At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: >>> Jay, Matthew: pkg improvements >>> [...] >>> Matthew, Robby: gui package manager >> >> Racket has a new package sy

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

* 2htdp/batch-io includes functions for reading html/xml from files and URLs as X-expressions plus some conveniences for designing web-oriented graph traversals. On Dec 20, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > I've pushed some HISTORY.txt and documentation updates. > > Here are so

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I didn't track the TR commits as carefully as the other ones (sorry guys but > you refactor a lot and it's hard to keep everything straight...) but I did > see a bunch of optimizer related commits for TR and so I wondered if someone > would

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

I know this is a different list than in the past and so you may need to parse the beginning of my message extra carefully. Also, have a look at my and Matthew's commits in response to get a sense of what I'm hoping you'll do in response to this. And if your name's on the list and you aren't clear,

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: >> Jay, Matthew: pkg improvements >> [...] >> Matthew, Robby: gui package manager > > Racket has a new package system and a catalog of packages at > > http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ W

Re: [racket-dev] release notes

I've pushed some HISTORY.txt and documentation updates. Here are some draft blurbs for the release announcement: At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:41:25 -0600, Robby Findler wrote: > Jay, Matthew: pkg improvements > [...] > Matthew, Robby: gui package manager Racket has a new package system and a catalog o

[racket-dev] release notes

Hi all: it's time to collect the release notes. Unlike past times, I've done something slightly differently when collecting information from the git logs. I tried to track every thing that looked like user-visible change (that wasn't "obviously" just a bug report) that either seemed worthy of the