[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v6.1

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 21 12:34:40 EDT 2014

On 07/21/2014 02:05 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:37:36 -0700, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>> On 07/17/2014 05:03 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
>>> * Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu>
>>>   Release tests for (one of the) linux releases:
>>>   - Test that the `racket' and `racket-textual' source releases
>>>     compile fine (note that they're still called `plt' and `mz' at
>>>     this stage).
>>>   - Test that the binary installers for both work, try each one in
>>>     both normal and unix-style installation modes. (just ubuntu)
>>>   [Note: get the release candidates from the URL in this email. Use
>>>    the 'static table' link to see a list of all tar files available]
>> Done, but I saw an error once during a build of 
>> racket-minimal-6.0.900.900-src.tgz during 'make install'. I accidentally 
>> destroyed the terminal and wasn't able to reproduce the error after two 
>> additional tries, so I'm not sure what went wrong but it was something like
>>
>> raco: building scribblings/framework.rkt
>>   sqlite3: unable to read from database
>>
>> I'll try once or twice more to see if it happens again.
> A minimal Racket build would not include documentation or "framework".
> Was something installed in user scope with a previous v6.0.900.900
> installation and maybe not removed before the Racket installation was
> itself removed?
>

Oh sorry, wrong copy/paste. I meant racket-6.0.900.900-src.tgz.


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