[plt-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v4.2.1 -- Pinging Sam

It actually gave us a bit of levity in the middle of a day-long meeting. We
were in a government vault, but fortunately had internet access, so I was
able to recover without too much effort. The e-mail was more to give Eli a
hard time than anything else.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> Sorry, Doug. I'll lay off the date-sensitive easter eggs from now on. :(
>
> I believe these are all of the the special days:
>
> 3/2
> 3/26
> 4/8
> 6/11
> 7/2
> 7/30
> 10/29
> 10/31
> 11/1
> 12/25
>
> Eli: does it make sense to add something that could test this stuff on
> a nightly basis (ie set the date to the dates listed above and try to
> start up drscheme)?
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Doug
> Williams<m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, of course, I had a big demo today and, you guessed it, DrScheme
> wouldn't
> > load. I had already rolled back to 4.1.5 because this code doesn't run
> under
> > 4.2 (or 4.2.1) - we're tracking that down. I reloaded PLT Scheme, etc.,
> but
> > that didn't work. Eventually, I looked here and saw the problem. Not
> being
> > clever enough to just change the date on my laptop, I downloaded 4.1 and
> ran
> > the demo under it - which meant loading all my PLaneT packages, etc. But,
> > the demo was successful in the end.
> >
> > Anyway, I was wondering if we could get a list of all the developer's
> > birthdays and significant holidays - Easter (obviously it has to have an
> > Easter egg or what would be the point), Thanksgiving, Texas Independence
> > Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, etc - so we can schedule demos around them.
> >
> > Oh, and Happy Birthday, Eli.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Michael Sperber <
> sperber at deinprogramm.de>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> DrScheme is broken today - it doesn't start up. (4.1.5 and 4.2 are also
> >> broken the same way.)  I assume it's because of Eli's birthday?  (If
> >> that's the case: Happy Birthday, Eli!)
> >>
> >> eta[59] "/Volumes/PLT Scheme v4.2.0.900/PLT Scheme
> >> v4.2.0.900"/bin/drscheme
> >> draw-bitmap in dc<%>: expected argument of type <bitmap% object>; given
> #f
> >>
> >>  === context ===
> >> /Volumes/PLT Scheme v4.2.0.900/PLT Scheme
> >> v4.2.0.900/collects/drscheme/private/drscheme-normal.ss:208:15
> >>
> >> The reason is that the code that is conditionalized on (eb-bday?) in
> >> drscheme-normal.ss makes the splash code want to access the splash
> >> bitmap, but that bitmap isn't set until the call to `start-splash',
> >> which comes only after it.  This appears to be fixed in the trunk, but I
> >> don't see offhand by what revision, so I don't know if it's already in
> >> the release code.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers =8-} Mike
> >> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
> >>
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