[racket] Deadlock with FIFO files

2014-10-25 Thread Eric Dobson
I'm attempting to use FIFOs as a simple IPC mechanism and I'm getting into a deadlock. I've simplified my program to the following and am still getting deadlocks. I believe that this shouldn't have an issues, but I might be wrong about that. Am I doing something wrong, or might this be a bug in the

Re: [racket] requiring a file in current-directory, if it exists

2014-10-25 Thread Gustavo Massaccesi
There is a lot of magic inside the require macro and require-transformers. I still don't understand all the details, but I hope I got most of them right. With some simplifications it's easier to understand. First, we create two dummy modules ;--- a.rkt --- #lang racket (provide a) (define a "A!")

Re: [racket] Bug in scribble's image-element?

2014-10-25 Thread Antonio Menezes Leitao
Hi, I'm reviving this thread because the problem is still present in the current snapshot builds. Just to remind you what the problem is: Scribble's image-element allows for a scale argument, but the html-render ignores it when processing SVG files. The problem is in the following function, in

Re: [racket] email notifications from pkg-build.racket-lang.org?

2014-10-25 Thread Jay McCarthy
I'm working on a similar thing on pkgs. that gives an author a quick list of any problems with their package in the catalog. Other problems are stuff like missing a description or a conflict with another package. Jay On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Matthew Butterick wrote: > Is there a way (or

[racket] email notifications from pkg-build.racket-lang.org?

2014-10-25 Thread Matthew Butterick
Is there a way (or will there be a way) to send a notification to the maintainer email address when a build does not totally succeed? Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users