[racket] Error installing whalesong

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:09 PM, J G Cho <gcho at fundingmatters.com> wrote:
> Following instruction per http://hashcollision.org/whalesong/, I tried to run
>
> #lang racket/base
> (require (planet dyoo/whalesong:1:12/make-launcher)) in DrRacket. (v
> 5.2 with unlimited memory flag, OSX Snow Leop with 1GB memorty)

Whalesong appears to be tickling a bug in Typed Racket under Racket
5.2.  I apologize for this; I should have caught this when Racket 5.2
came out.  I'll try to be better at tracking with Racket's subsequent
releases and make sure this doesn't happen again.

I just released Whalesong 1.13 to let it work cleanly with the
upcoming 5.2.1.  If you grab a pre-release Racket and try it with
Whalesong 1.13, do you see a similar error?



> BTW, what is the timeline on supporting #lang racket/base? Any plan on
> #lang (for module)?

I'm in the middle of dissertation writing, so unfortunately I won't be
able to work on getting #lang racket/base working until I'm done with
the darn thing... :)  But I'll be back to work on this during the
summer.

The #lang line does work, though with a restriction.  See the slightly
ridiculous examples:

    https://github.com/dyoo/whalesong/blob/master/examples/hello-bf.rkt
    https://github.com/dyoo/whalesong/blob/master/examples/hello-kr.rkt

The restriction is that a language's runtime bindings currently needs
to bottom out to modules that are written in (planet
dyoo/whalesong/lang/base) or a very small subset of '#%kernel.  You
can still access full  Racket for the compile-time macros, though, as
the hello-bf example demonstrates.