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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 27 19:31:40 EDT 2009

Sorry -- this was not aimed at you specifically. In this case, I think
it is going to be tricky to reproduce.

In any case, I think you probably can get away with deleting all
compiled/drscheme directories in the future if this happens.

Robby

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Matthias Felleisen<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Matthias Felleisen<matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I blew away my tree and compiled the whole thing from scratch. All bugs
>>> disappeared.
>>
>> That makes sense to me.
>>
>> The trick is to understand how your .zo files got into the wrong state
>> in the first place.
>>
>> One possible issue: DrScheme shares some of its own instantiation of
>> various modules with the user's program. Perhaps there is some way
>> that that can confuse CM? Does that seem possible to anyone?
>
> I am sorry, but I don't have time for a proper bug report. I am still trying
> to write a talk -- for which I need a working drscheme.
>


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