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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 27 18:14:42 EDT 2009

I think that's the only error. I've committed a fix.

I wasn't able to make drscheme have the especially bad behavior you were, tho.

Robby

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Matthias Felleisen<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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