[plt-dev] EMERGENCY: drscheme no longer works in today's svn head

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 27 17:43:02 EDT 2009

I tracked down one obvious error (locate-frame instead of locate-file  
in private/ somewhere) but I will leave it to you. Thanks.


On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> (It was supposed to be a method of the frame-group, fwiw.)
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Robby
> Findler<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I think that the error is coming from the error-display-handler.
>> Generally speaking, that code is called in strange places, so needs  
>> to
>> not raise errors.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Ryan Culpepper<ryanc at ccs.neu.edu>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Switching to Module in drscheme immediately produces this error  
>>>> message
>>>>
>>>>> Welcome to DrScheme, version 4.2.1.7-svn27aug2009 [3m].
>>>>> Language: Module; memory limit: 256 megabytes.
>>>>> Module Language: invalid module text
>>>>> send: no such method: locate-frame for class: %
>>>>
>>>> and it disables all buttons except for STOP. Clicking stop  
>>>> doesn't help
>>>> the least.
>>>
>>> I get the same error. Some more notes:
>>>
>>> By a combination of kills and breaks (a final break seems  
>>> necessary...?) I
>>> was able to kill the evaluation. When I switched the language to  
>>> Pretty Big,
>>> I got a "read found code compiled for 4.2.1.6, wanted  
>>> 4.2.1.7" (paraphrased
>>> because it is no longer in front of me). I have no idea what code in
>>> particular it's taking about.
>>>
>>> My conjecture is that Robby's commit (r15795) is responsible for  
>>> the error
>>> message that actually gets shown ('locate-frame' occurs nowhere  
>>> else in the
>>> collects, as far as I can tell), but there seems to be an underlying
>>> problem. That is, there's an error reporting the real error.
>>>
>>> I had run a full setup-plt immediately before starting DrScheme, so
>>> somewhere code is not getting recompiled. I'm currently in the  
>>> middle of a
>>> "setup-plt -c; setup-plt" cycle.
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
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