Re: [racket-users] Namespaces and modules

2020-11-15 Thread Dominik Pantůček
> > Using ''sandbox as an argument to `namespace-require` to refer to a > local module is something like passing 'x to `eval` to try to refer to > a local variable `x`. The `namespace-require` procedure doesn't know > where it's being called from, so it doesn't work. > > Try `quote-module-path`

[racket-users] Spell checking in DrRacket for Windows

2020-11-15 Thread Rebelsky, Samuel
Dear Racket Community, One of my students is running DrRacket on Windows and getting a strange error message when they try to use the spell checker. They report "It says something about needing ispell or aspell. But when I install aspell, it still doesn't work." I'm on a Mac and don't encoun

Re: [racket-users] Spell checking in DrRacket for Windows

2020-11-15 Thread Robby Findler
Two thoughts: after installing ispell, did they restart DrRacket? In their shell, when they install ispell, what path is located at? (The second question is because the normal way one starts up DrRacket, it does not inherit the PATH settings that one gets in the Terminal window, so DrRacket has to

Re: [racket-users] Namespaces and modules

2020-11-15 Thread Philip McGrath
I think you’ll need `define-runtime-module-path` or `define-runtime-module-path-index` to alert the executable builder to the dynamic dependency. On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 3:38 AM Dominik Pantůček < dominik.pantu...@trustica.cz> wrote: > > > > > Using ''sandbox as an argument to `namespace-require`

[racket-users] Website registration broken?

2020-11-15 Thread Daniel Holtby
I've been trying to register on pkgd.racket-lang.org and when requesting a registration code, I see this error that appears to be the exception handler itself throwing an exception since it's expecting a JSON string but given an HTML byte-string? Exception The application raised an exception w

Re: [racket-users] Racket users video meetup

2020-11-15 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks John gather.town refused to work on safari and the error message recommended chrome. - I (wrongly) assumed firefox would also fail. s. On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 1:53 AM John Clements wrote: > Stephen, I’m pretty sure that gather.town works fine with … all major > browsers? It certainly a