[racket-dev] Release for v5.0.2 has begun

John, was that to get them to work with a nightly (or pre-release) build or
with the released version of Racket? I've not had any problems running them
on the released version. But, I haven't exercised them to the extent that
you have.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:48 AM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:

>
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Doug Williams wrote:
>
> > I downloaded the pre-release version this morning - 10/20 (I believe it
> was a build from 10/16). The plot package and plot extensions in the science
> collection all work as expected. But, I am getting different numeric answers
> for some of my science collection routines (for example, the gamma function)
> and some of my newer code (for example, FFT) either fails with an error
> message or DrRacket just dies. All of this code uses unsafe operations and
> the problem may lie there somewhere. I'll try digging more deeply this
> evening.
>
> Focus first on uses of unsafe-vector-ref and unsafe-vector-set!. (Not the
> fx and fl variants, just the plain ones).  I wound up removing these from
> the FFT code in order to get it to work.
>
> Check out bug PR 11264.
>
> Also, very late flash of insight: my response (getting rid of
> unsafe-vector-ref and unsafe-vector-set!) might explain my performance
> issues with the FFT library.
>
> John
>
>
>
> > Doug
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu>
> wrote:
> > The release process for v5.0.2 has begun: the `release' branch was
> > created for any work that is left and is now bumped to v5.0.1.900.  You
> > can go on using the `master' branch as usual, it is now bumped to
> > v5.0.2.1 (to avoid having two different trees with the same version).
> >
> > If you have any bug-fixes and changes that need to go in the release
> > then make sure to specify that in the commit message or mail me the
> > commit SHA1s.  You can `git checkout release' to try it out directly if
> > needed -- but do not try to push commits on it (the server will forbid
> > it).
> >
> > Note that nightly builds will go on as usual (as v5.0.2.1), and
> > pre-release builds will be available shortly at
> >
> >  http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/
> >
> > Please tell me if you think that this should be announced on the
> > users list for wider testing.
> > --
> > Ryan Culpepper
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