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

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 27 18:16:44 EDT 2009

On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> 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.

I fixed that error and still got the first line, but not the second. I  
rolled back all of collects by a week. Still compiling.


>
> 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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>>
>>



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