broken 3.99.0.9 MacOS installer? was: Re: [plt-scheme] please help us scribble!

Apologies from management: Eli is still having problems with the  
nightly build. I think it is best to compile from source at the  
moment and wait for a 'true' release message on nightly builds from  
Eli. -- Matthias




On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just installed 3.99.0.9 on my PPC Mac from the installer
> (not self-compiled) and it breaks on start-up with the error
> message (after the splash-window progress bar gets to the end):
>
> standard-module-name-resolver: collection not found:  
> #<path:scribblings/guide> in any of: (#<path:/Users/andrew/Library/ 
> PLT Scheme/3.99.0.9/collects> #<path:/Applications/PLT Scheme  
> v3.99.0.9/collects>)
>
>  === context ===
> /Applications/PLT Scheme v3.99.0.9/collects/syntax/modresolve.ss: 
> 22:2: resolve-module-path
> resolve-module-path
> /Applications/PLT Scheme v3.99.0.9/collects/scribble/basic.ss:82:2:  
> module-path-prefix->string
>
>
> [Exited]
>
> There must be something incomplete in the installation image,
> because I have also installed 3.99.0.9 from source from svn
> (3jan2008) on my FreeBSD system, and it starts just fine.
>
> Scribble looks great!  A few years ago I discovered and enjoyed
> using Manuel Serrano's "skribe" (in fact, that was my first
> introduction to scheme), but I stopped using it some time after
> he announced that he had stopped supporting it.  Scribble looks
> like a very similar idea, but with the extra advantage of nicer
> (more tex-like?) surface syntax.  Is there any current or planned
> support for maths?  [I know, this is an unfair question, since
> mathml is (a) so nasty and (b) so well supported...  I'll just
> have to stick to LaTeX for papers with equations in them.]
>
> Also: weird formatting thing in the scribble documentation (at
> the link below):  In epiphany on my FreeBSD system, it takes two
> clicks on the prev, up or next links to make the browser actually
> follow the link.  On the first click, the table re-formats itself
> with a line-break between the larrow and the "prev", and (in the
> top of page version) the Version: 3.99.0.9 text moves left, to
> sit above the up and next links.  This behaviour seems to be
> entirely robust, and independent of text size.  Same broken
> behaviour with Firefox under GNOME: must be something wrong with
> Gecko's font sizing under X, I suppose.  In Safari, the arrows
> render as the "missing glyph" box, but they look OK in Firefox
> and Camino.  Odd.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:31:22 -0700
> Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>>      http://pre.plt-scheme.org/docs/html/scribble/
>
>
> -- 
> Andrew
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