Scribble-math package installation error

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While trying to (re)install the scribble-math package (using the Package Manager, under DrRacket), currently I get the following error:

Downloading repository https://gitea.suzanne.soy/suzanne.soy/scribble-math.git#main commit a69b6fad193757de5a62b6a1cabacb7557d02ff7
ssl-connect: connect failed (error:0A0000C6:SSL routines::packet length too long)

The scribble-math is a great and very useful package, because it allows to write LaTeX style expressions (easily) in our scribble documents. (I use it, almost daily for notes, quizzes and exams).

Thank you in advance for any suggestion or support to fix this problem.
Kind regards,
Enrique.

P. S. The same problem occurs under DrRacket 8.16 as well as 8.17 version. Before, when I used "copy from version", to migrate packages from 8.15 to 8.16, I didn't encounter this problem.

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I believe that Suzanne's github hosting site has been down for some time. You can look into some of the snapshots at https://racksnaps.defn.io/, the 2024-11-16 snapshot I tried worked for scribble-math.

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Thank you @samth for the identification of a working snapshot for scribble-math. I hope the great job done by Suzanne with this package, is recovered somehow, in order to work properly again, under the Package Manager.

The utility of this package and the way it complement the scribble language, makes scribble-math (in my opinion) a good candidate to be included in the main distribution. Being in the main distribution, it would be easier to use the package, and teach others about it, and also, it would increase the chance to be updated when needed.

Thank you again for your support and comments on this issue.

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It looks like the mentioned commit is also the tip of the main branch of the Github repository, so you could install from there: https://github.com/SuzanneSoy/scribble-math

It is also archived by Software Heritage:

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Thank you @LiberalArtist for the alternatives to install scribble-math. I was able to install it using the reference shared by @samth:
I just used the Package Manager from DrRacket, and add to Settings the line: https://racksnaps.defn.io/snapshots/2024/11/16/catalog/

Thank you both, for your prompt support. I hope that in the future we can again, use the default catalogues in the Package Manager to install this very usefulscribble-math package (which, BTW generates also great graphics with the support of Asymptote).

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Currently, the installation of scribble-math package, is working fine (from my experience) using the Package Manager, with the default catalogues. Thank you for that.

As an opportunity to improve the Racket documentation with scribble-math, using this package, we can easily rewrite the mathematical expressions related to the Fresnel integrals, documented at the end of section 3.1 Real Functions in the link: 3 Special Functions.

Kind regards.