[plt-dev] Release Announcement for v4.2.5 -- 2nd call

From: Ryan Culpepper (ryanc at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 2 11:24:52 EDT 2010

On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> Possible items (dug up from log messages) -- please reply if you have
>> an entry here, or a comment on the following items:
>>
>> Robby:
>>  - New language dialog layout
>
> I'm not sure we want to mention this, but if we do, it goes at the end
> and would be something like "The language dialog now suggests more
> strongly that using "#lang" is the Right Thing(tm)."
>
>> Noel, Ryan:
>>  - schemeunit is now included (gui revived?)
>
> - Our unit testing framework, schemeunit, is now included in the
> distribution (It has long been in the undistributed part of our SVN
> archives).

Append:

   A graphical test runner is available via schemeunit/gui.

Ryan



>
> ?
>
>> * The support languages for the "Programming Languages: Application
>>  and Interpretation" textbook by Shriram Krishnamurthi are now part
>>  of PLT Scheme.  In addition, a random mutator generator for
>>  testing garbage collectors and a new heap visualizer GUI were
>>  added by Robby Findler.
>
> Starting from "In addition" to the end, replace with "In addition the
> PLAI GC language comes with a random mutator generator (to help test
> collectors) and an improved heap visualizer."
>
> Robby
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