[racket-dev] release notes

Ah. I think you should do it :)

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file
> somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind doing it?
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> > I understand that one can reasonably view these as bug fixes.
>> > Nevertheless,
>> > they affect observable behavior of the functions in a way that could
>> > possibly break others code (as opposed to more "obvious" bug fixes that
>> > are
>> > likely to only affect others' code by fixing problems with it).
>> >
>> > So these should be explicitly mentioned in a HISTORY file somewhere so
>> > that
>> > someone who upgrades from, say, 5.3.2 to 6.2 can figure out which
>> > version
>> > made this change that's causing them problems.
>>
>> In that case...
>>
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Robby Findler
>> >> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> >> > Jay, Jan Dvořák: formlet improvements
>> >>
>> >> * web-server/formlets supports generic input formlets and strings on
>> >> all formlet default values.
>> >>
>> >> > Jay: Host and Content-Length headers in http-client.rkt:
>> >> > (dc8f52dbb1e3ca48622629a76000b5fea021697d)
>> >>
>> >> I think this is an error fix.
>>
>> * net/url will add Host: and Content-Length: headers to HTTP requests
>> iff those headers are not already included. This increases
>> compatibility with many servers.
>>
>> >> > Jay: get/set-pixel in bitmap-dc% now respects alpha
>> >> > (551e536f3e7841b6ee7911da560f11b70a227292)
>> >>
>> >> I believe this is an error fix.
>>
>> * bitmap-dc% pixel operations now respect alpha bits, rather than
>> silently ignoring them.
>>
>> >> > Jay: plai gc2 improvements
>> >>
>> >> I think this was just an error. We could say "* plai/gc2 supports
>> >> moving collectors", but it was supposed to before.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>> >>
>> >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>
>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>
>



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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93