Re: version 199.1

[Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu>]

Quoting Hannu Koivisto:
> I recall some talk about the development of a new debugger.  Is
> that a separate project or is its development part of the work that
> will eventually be this 200 release?

I'll defer to John on the status of the debugger...

> Currently using MzScheme is
> quite painful for me because I can't even get a backtrace in a case
> of an error,

Try -L errortrace.ss errortrace on the MzScheme command line (103.X or
199.X). It's not much, but you should at least get a backtrace.

> Also, I've reported two or so process launching bugs and I recall
> you mentioned that someone was working on a code that replaces the
> current process launching stuff and won't have these problems.
> Will this code be part of the version 200 release or do I have to
> continue patching the sources myself?

The two bug fixes to `porcess' are in 199.1. I expect to get the
replacement code into 199.X in a couple of weeks. (I'm running about a
month behind.)

Matthew