[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3.6

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 24 22:41:55 EDT 2013

I will say that I'm not 100% happy with just assuming that TR works in
the absence of a clean test run.  Is there a reason not to include
these fixes?

Sam

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> The problems I've observed were only with the tests.
>>
>> The first problem I reported was caused by a bug/limitation in places,
>> which was fixed by 733907474190da499a1782b230086170c5b87643. It was
>> preventing the TR test suite from running properly.
>>
>> The others were bugs in the TR tests, not in TR itself.
>>
>> TR itself should be fine for the release.
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>>
>>
>> At Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:03:08 -0500,
>> Robby Findler wrote:
>> >
>> > [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>> > Vincent: can you clarify what the status of TR & the release is, please?
>> > Are there problems only with tests, or were there problems elsewhere
>> > too?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Robby
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Vincent St-Amour
>> > <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:
>> >
>> > > The TR tests still fail when using a single place.
>> > >
>> > > The following commits should be included in the release:
>> > > 069ff59a4bd6a988a5670c7e4dd38c1dbbe12ec0
>> > > 0e7940ab4943600e6f5c8f13ce7ee13e8af9a8f5
>> > > ab5075bc762356f86bb7dfd34dac8d24ada1a140
>> > >
>> > > Vincent
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > At Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:49:20 -0400,
>> > > Vincent St-Amour wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > At Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:13:28 -0400,
>> > > > Ryan Culpepper wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Checklist items for the v5.3.6 release
>> > > > >    (using the v5.3.5.900 release candidate build)
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Search for your name to find relevant items, reply when you finish
>> > > > > an
>> > > > > item (please indicate which item/s is/are done).  Also, if you
>> > > > > have any
>> > > > > commits that should have been picked, make sure that the changes
>> > > > > are
>> > > in.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Important: new builds are created without announcement, usually
>> > > whenever
>> > > > > I pick a few commits.  If you need to commit changes, please make
>> > > > > sure
>> > > > > you tell me to pick it into the release branch.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --> Release candidates are at
>> > > > > -->   http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/installers
>> > > >
>> > > > The "Linux/i386/Ubuntu Precise" installer is 64 bits, which is
>> > > > wrong.
>> > > >
>> > > > > * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>,
>> > > > >     Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>
>> > > > >    - Match Tests
>> > > > >    - Typed Racket Tests
>> > > > >    - Typed Racket Updates: update HISTORY
>> > > > >    (updates should show v5.3.6 as the most current version; email
>> > > > > me
>> > > > >    to pick the changes when they're done, or tell me if there are
>> > > > > no
>> > > such
>> > > > >    changes.)
>> > > >
>> > > > I get the following error when runing the TR tests:
>> > > >
>> > > > place-channel-put: value not allowed in a message
>> > > >   value: '#:methods
>> > > >   ...
>> > > >
>> > > > Is 733907474190da499a1782b230086170c5b87643 missing from the
>> > > > release?
>> > > >
>> > > > Now running the tests without places.
>> > > >
>> > > > Vincent
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