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Re: 103d1



Due to popular demand, the change listed below has been posponed and
will not happen for the 103 release. Sorry for any trouble.

New sources released to CVS.

Robby

Quoting Robert Bruce Findler:
> The new version of DrScheme removes the extra primitives from the
> teaching language levels. Now, the documentation of the primitives for
> the teaching languages and the primitives actually defined in the
> teaching languages are the same (before now, all of mzscheme's
> primitives were available). In fact, the source for the documentation
> is used to specify the available primitives.
> 
> I am doing this early in the release cycle, because I doubt that the
> documentation is complete. Possibly some primitive that you yourself
> rely on is now no longer in the teaching languages (I already added 20
> or 30 primitives, based on the drscheme and drscheme jr test suites).
> If so, please let us know.
> 
> New source has been released to anonymous CVS and documentation
> rebuilt. To get the new docs, delete:
> 
>   plt/collects/doc/{beginning,intermediate,advanced}, 
> 
> start help desk, follow the "manuals" link, and click on the "PLT
> DrScheme: Beginning Student Language", etc links at the bottom of the
> page.
> 
> SHRIRAM, MATTHEW: The drscheme-jr test suite has been updated for the
> new languages. I had to remove several tests that tested for things
> that should not have been there. In each case, I left the code in the
> test suite, commented out. I did that so that you two can each check
> this over (search for `REMOVED'). Also, I removed some of the
> define-macro tests at the end -- they complete correctly when typed
> into drscheme-jr manually, so I suspect a bug in the test suite.
> Finally, the test suite does not work if the language level settings
> are saved (under some conditions; I didn't figure out exactly what they
> are, but deleting the saved file caused my problems to go away).
> 
> Robby