[racket] Hosting the try-racket REPL.

It's a known issue. Alex Knauth has submitted a rough solution to my fork
of it; I'll get it merged and pushed to the server shortly.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Steve Graham <jsgrahamus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I get errors when trying to type in a multi-line function.  Am I doing
> something wrong?
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> *To:* J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Racket Users <users at racket-lang.org>; Robby Findler <
> robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>; Marc Burns <m4burns at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 22, 2014 12:05 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [racket] Hosting the try-racket REPL.
>
> J and I chatted a little and he got his DNS working and also I added
>
> http://try.racket-lang.org/
>
> as an alias for it.
>
> In general, the Racket team is willing to give out subdomains of
> r-l.org for projects that would like them, so they don't have to buy
> their own DNS addresses. Just email the list or one of us directly to
> ask.
>
> Jay
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:17 AM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm.
> >
> > Alright, replacing the calls to slideshow with calls directly to pict, as
> > well as commenting out the racket/gui/base calls successfully gets the
> code
> > to run without X.
> >
> > However, something about how it converts the picts for web isn't
> working, so
> > instead of a neat little circle, for instance, I get "(pict '(prog
> > #<procedure:... etc." instead.
> >
> > I suspect this is probably something to do with a difference in behavior
> in
> > how images are converted by the server, which does a convertible? test
> and
> > then runs:
> >  (run-code ev `(bytes-append #"data:image/png;base64,"
> >                          (base64-encode (convert ,res 'png-bytes) #"")))
> >
> > At an idiot's guess, something is different about how pict is making the
> > images, so convertible? is #f and the code just prints the (pict
> '(prog...
> > stuff.
> >
> > I've set up a fork here: https://github.com/jarcane/try-racket
> > I'm still working on getting the DNS set properly though, so no
> > try-racket.org yet; the servlet is public at http://104.131.18.192:8000/
> but
> > I haven't figured out how to get try-racket.org to go there yet.
> >
> >
> > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe you can use  slideshow/code-pict instead?
> >>
> >> Robby
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Marc Burns <
> m4burns at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >> > The culprit is the slideshow/code module loaded into the sandbox
> >> > evaluator. Requiring slideshow/code attempts to establish an X server
> >> > connection.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:12:37AM +0300, J Arcane wrote:
> >> >> Greetings,
> >> >>
> >> >> For some time now, it's bothered me a bit that Racket doesn't have an
> >> >> online REPL currently hosted anywhere. There's one written here:
> >> >> https://github.com/voila/try-racket
> >> >>
> >> >> But no one's hosted it anywhere. So I took it upon myself to fix
> that.
> >> >> I've
> >> >> purchased try-racket.org and a basic DigitalOcean droplet to host it
> >> >> on,
> >> >> but I've hit a snag: I can't get it to run.
> >> >>
> >> >> It runs more or less without trouble on my personal FreeBSD box, but
> on
> >> >> my
> >> >> Debian 7 droplet I waded through countless dependency issues until
> >> >> finally
> >> >> I reached what seems to be this same error:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view%20audit-trail≺=12465
> <http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view%20audit-trail&pr=12465>
>
> >> >>
> >> >> Presuming that perhaps this was in someway trying to run Racket in an
> >> >> actual GUI window whether I wanted it to or not, I attempted to run
> it
> >> >> as
> >> >> --script, but this just quits silently instead, leaving no servlet
> >> >> behind
> >> >> either.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? or have I hit a proper bug?
> (IME
> >> >> it's usually the former ... )
> >> >>
> >> >> John Berry
> >> >> http://jarcane.github.com
> >> >
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