[racket-dev] Icons issues

Please bring back the nightly build. 


On Dec 7, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> I asked for someone to do something to give us more time two days ago.
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> On 12/05/2011 12:35 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>> 
>>> The icons collection has some issues that need to be resolved:
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> * It breaks the dependencies.  The error is:
>>> 
>>>     unsatisfied dependency for "dr-bin":
>>>     "racket/collects/icons/main.rkt" (in:
>>>     "racket/collects/drracket/compiled/syncheck-drracket-button_rkt.dep"
>>>     ...)
>>> 
>>>   This means that the DrRacket distribution requires "icons/main.rkt",
>>>   and that's missing from the distribution.
>>> 
>>>   The reason it's missing is that Matthew tried to fix the more
>>>   serious problem that was there before: the new icons requires
>>>   `slideshow' and `texpict' (via `unstable/gui/pict'), and since
>>>   DrRacket uses it, it now depends on these too.
>>> 
>>>   Potential ways to resolve it:
>>> 
>>>   1. Decide that it's fine to make slideshow and texpict required for
>>>      drracket.
>>> 
>>>   2. Dump the idea of making sense and stop making these tests.
>>> 
>>>   3. Avoid the new dependency, and make the code not require that.
>>>      Potentially do that by splitting the code into a part that
>>>      drracket can use, and a part that is not needed.
>> 
>> 
>> The nightly builds have now been failing for seven days. I assume it's
>> because of this dist-spec issue.
>> 
>> I vote we do #1 to get the nightly builds working again immediately. When
>> the parties involved figure out a long-term solution, we can undo the
>> dist-spec change.
>> 
>> It would also be nice if the particular distributions that did succeed in
>> the nightly builds were made available. I assume that the "plt-everything"
>> distribution (or whatever it's called) has been succeeding, and that only a
>> lesser-used distribution is preventing any updates.
>> 
>> Ryan
>> 
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