The scribble-mathis 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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
It's now January 2026, and the ssl-connect issue appears to have been continuously a problem for nearly a year. Would it make sense to create a new package that contains this code? The repository contains the text of the LGPL3, which suggests that there's no copyright problem with this.
To be clear, I would like to support suzanne soy's continued maintenance and development of this code, if there's any way to make that possible.
It's now January 2026, and the ssl-connect issue appears to have been continuously a problem for nearly a year. Would it make sense to create a new package that contains this code? The repository contains the text of the LGPL3, which suggests that there's no copyright problem with this.
To be clear, I would like to support suzanne soy's continued maintenance and development of this code, if there's any way to make that possible.
Perhaps their packages could be updated to use the GitHub mirrors
instead? (I don't know if there's ongoing maintenance there to accept
a PR for your other contributions though.)
Preferably Suzanne would make the change (or at least consent to it), of course.
In my mind (and to be clear, I don't think we have any community guidelines here), the existing package-name ("scribble-math") is "owned" by Suzanne, so the non-toe-steppy way to do this would be to create a new package name and encourage others to refer to the new one rather than the old one. I'm not sure how many other packages, if any, currently refer to scribble-math and would need to be updated. Would this set a bad precedent? If no one objects, I might just create this package ("scribble-math-2"), in order to get this off my plate. I'd be happy to delete the package or update it to some kind of redirect statement, if Suzanne repairs the existing entry.
On one hand I don't like taking over a package name.
However, the current scribble-math package can't currently be installed
and the intention of Suzanne must be for people to use the package.
That combined with the relative large number of uses:
If none has succeeded in contacting Suzanne, I think, it would be best if @jbclements made a scribble-math package and make the package server use that version.
If Suzanne returns, we can always give the package name back.
If you have scribble-math installed already there is no problems.
However, if you need to install scribble-math on a new system (or are a new user),
the usual automatic installation fails. You can manually install it from an archived version, but it is a bit cumbersome - and you need to know what caused your installation problem.
Hey! Looks like it's up again! Suzanne Soy, if you can read this, would you consider making (e.g.) Jens Soegaard an additional author on the scribble-math package? This could potentially help to avoid this kind of outage in the future?