I am a professor of Computer Science in a technological institute. My research is comparing productivity of computer languages using Measurement Theory. I think you already know that from my previous posts. The point is that Racket 6.0 installer is very unfriendly. Well, it is almost like the installer of Racket 6.0. The only difference is that Racket 6.0 does not work.
I asked about 8 students to install Racket 6.0. Nobody succeeded. 100% of failures. I tried the installation myself, and failed. I will give an example. I am using Cloud computing, and cannot modify the machine. For instance, I cannot install a new operating system to satisfy the requirements of Racket 6.0. Given these constraints, the situation is the following: cat /proc/cpuinfo vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name : AMD Opteron 63xx class CPU stepping : 0 microcode : 0x1000065 cpu MHz : 2299.909 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes bogomips : 4599.81 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual This particular machine has 16 cores, and the kernel is: uname -mrs Linux 3.2.52 x86_64 When I try to run Racket 5.36, everything works perfectly well. Here is an example: # mv racket racket60 # mv racket-old/ racket # racket/bin/racket -il xrepl Welcome to Racket v5.3.6. -> (* 3 4 5) 60 -> (exit) Now, let us see what happens with Racket 6.0: # mv racket racket-old # mv racket60 racket # mv racket60 racket # racket/bin/racket racket/bin/racket: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by racket/bin/racket) # I would like you to understand that most people are not PhD in Computer Science. 90% of people want to run out of the box applications. Even programmers don't have in depth knowledge about the workings of computers and operating systems. I don't know why Racket 6.0 needs libc.so.6, or GLIBC_2.14. I just want to run statistics programs written in Racket from an Internet page. I will give you another example about Racket 6.0. There are a lot of people that use a text editor called Vim+mzscheme. This text editor has a lot of applications about Rasch measurement, that are used by people in the business of education. I mean, people who work in things like SAT, GRE, USMLE, and equivalent activities in countries around the world. These programs test students, and the processed scores are often used by admission offices to accept applicants. I happen to work with this kind of programs. Installing Vim+mzscheme is a nuisance, since people must compile Racket from sources, and Vim from sources. In Windows, few people succeed in performing the task. The same is true in the case of OS-X. I am talking about Racket 5.36, for I don't know a single person who installed vim+mzscheme with Racket 6.0. What I need is a version of Racket that work right out of the box, at least for OS-X, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Linux. I also need a fast editor, like Vim. Well members of this list, here is what I am going to do. I will download Bigloo, learn how to use it, hire a programmer to write array operations in Bigloo, translate a lot of programs from Racket and Common Lisp to Bigloo, and start from zero, as in Edith Piaf's song. * Junia Magalhães Rocha* Doutoranda em Inteligência Artificial - Engenharia Elétrica - UFU Mestre em Inteligência Artificial - Ciência da Computação - UFU Docente do IFTM - Campus Avançado Patrocínio Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3659680417351721
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