[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 25 14:48:40 EDT 2012

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I suspect the problem is caused by commit 8358420f, which changed match to
> load part of its implementation lazily using lazy-require. Part of that
> commit was reverted by 949d12e2, but possibly the use of lazy-require left
> in is causing problems in some cases.
>
> I think it would be best to just fully revert the commit (8358420f) on the
> release branch.

I agree.  Do I need to do something here for this?

Sam

>
> On 07/25/2012 01:56 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
>>
>> It turns out that if I require racket/match explicitly it works.
>> Although I shouldn't have to since racket/match is provided by #lang
>> racket. So, I have a work around on Windows XP 32-bit. But it would be
>> nice to get the problem fixed.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Doug Williams
>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I used Create Executable in DrRacket. But, I just tried raco exe --gui
>>> main.rkt to create it and get exactly the same error.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is this application generated with 'raco exe'?  Or 'Create Executable'
>>>> in DrRacket?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Doug Williams
>>>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Some more information on the problem. The application runs fine with
>>>>> the pre-release on Windows 7 - 64 bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> The code that is dying on Windows XP 32-bit is:
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> (require racket/runtime-path)
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> ;;;
>>>>> (define-runtime-path subject-path "..\\Subjects.txt")
>>>>>
>>>>> ;;;
>>>>> (define (load-subject-encodings)
>>>>>    (let ((port (open-input-file subject-path #:mode 'text)))
>>>>>      (set! subject-encodings
>>>>>            (append
>>>>>             default-subject-encodings
>>>>>             (for/list ((line (in-lines port))
>>>>>                        #:when (regexp-match? #px"^\"(.*)\"\\s*\"(.*)\""
>>>>> line))
>>>>>               (match line
>>>>>                 ((pregexp "^\"(.*)\"\\s*\"(.*)\"" (list _ subject
>>>>> encoding))
>>>>>                  (list (pregexp (format "^(?i:~a)" subject))
>>>>> encoding))))))
>>>>>      (close-input-port port)))
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> (define subject-encodings default-subject-encodings)
>>>>>
>>>>> (load-subject-encodings)
>>>>>
>>>>>   ...
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>>> This code loads some data at load time. It does use match, which might
>>>>> explain the message:
>>>>>
>>>>> standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found
>>>>>    collection: "racket/match"
>>>>>    in collection directories:
>>>>>    context...:
>>>>>     standard-module-name-resolver
>>>>>     #%embedded:g13106:ground-truth-data: [running body]
>>>>>     #%embedded:g13057:radar-data: [traversing imports]
>>>>>     #%embedded:g8619:classifier-panel: [traversing imports]
>>>>>     main: [traversing imports]
>>>>>     loop
>>>>>
>>>>> [Exited. Close box or Ctrl-C closes the console.]
>>>>>
>>>>> I get when I run the compiled version. In DrRacket it dies with the
>>>>> unhandled Win 32 exception.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Doug Williams
>>>>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The pre-release 32-bit version still fails for my large applications
>>>>>> at work fails to execute in DrRacket - 32-bit Windows XP. I don't have
>>>>>> the source or symbol tables loaded so the only message I get from the
>>>>>> Visual Studio debugger is attached. This is the same problem I was
>>>>>> having with the previous pre-release version a month or so ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can create an executable of the application. It fails because it
>>>>>> doesn't find racket/match. I'll look into that further.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> sam th
>>>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>
>
>



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