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

But do note that the "full" build should be working at this point if
you want to get something from the nightly build page.

Robby

On Jan 8, 2008 7:15 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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:
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> > 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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