[plt-scheme] Odd error message: is 4.0 really too old? :)

From: Will Farr (farr at MIT.EDU)
Date: Thu Jun 12 00:52:39 EDT 2008

Carl (and other Galore maintainers),

I've been using Galore 3.6 with the pre-release PLT Scheme for a while  
now, and it seems to work fine.  There is a build error because the  
test suite depends on SchemeUnit 1.something, and that doesn't build  
on v4, but I haven't found any troubles with my modest usage of sets  
and tables.

Should I be more careful, or could things really be working ok with  
version 4?

Thanks,
Will

On Jun 12, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Carl Eastlund wrote:

> Heheh.  Yeah, the planet error messages haven't caught on that
> sometimes a version is too new as well as too old now.  :)
>
> I took most of my planet packages out of the 4.0 repository; if I
> hadn't, I believe you'd be getting a build error instead of a version
> error, anyway.  I'll try to get Galore working for 4.0 soon.  It
> shouldn't be hard, I ported most of cce/combinators.plt into
> cce/scheme.plt anyway.  Thanks for keeping us updated.
>
> --Carl
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
>> I'm currently running 4.0-svn11jun2008, and after trying to recompile
>> some source, I'm seeing the following error:
>>
>> ######################################################################################
>> setup-plt:   require: PLaneT could not find the requested package:
>> Server had no matching package: Your version of PLT Scheme is too old
>> to run the specified package in: (planet "combinators.ss" ("cce"
>> "combinators.plt" 1 (= 1)))
>> ######################################################################################
>>
>> This is showing up because Galore has a dependency on the combinators
>> library, which isn't available for 4.0.
>>
>> (I hacked up my local copy of Galore and SchemeUnit 1.2 to make  
>> things
>> run again, and will send my changes upstream tomorrow...)
>
> -- 
> Carl Eastlund
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