From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Gough Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: [PATCH] added brief introduction about SLIB Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:12:07 +0000 Message-ID: <87fx7clf60.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260873050 16400 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2009 10:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:50 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 11:30:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NKUfy-0004Ia-KC for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKUfy-0000WZ-GC for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKUfX-0000Gd-94 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKUfS-0000BZ-9O for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43416 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKUfR-0000BJ-Cl for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk ([66.199.228.187]:4252) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKUfR-0007Yt-4r for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:30:09 -0500 User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Message-Mac: 1aa3f9e294a93a34571690c72813ddfa X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 2) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:4401 Archived-At: This patch adds a short introduction to the SLIB section of the manual with a link to the SLIB homepage. --=20 Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd, Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ =46rom 60548b6e039bf57694b7841996cfda011cb8a4bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Gough Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:49:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added brief introduction about SLIB --- doc/ref/slib.texi | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/ref/slib.texi b/doc/ref/slib.texi index d3357c9..5fe382d 100644 --- a/doc/ref/slib.texi +++ b/doc/ref/slib.texi @@ -8,14 +8,21 @@ @section SLIB @cindex SLIB =20 -Before the SLIB facilities can be used, the following Scheme expression -must be executed: +SLIB is a portable library of Scheme packages which can be used with +Guile and other Scheme implementations. SLIB is not included in the +Guile distribution, but can be installed separately (@pxref{SLIB +installation}). It is available from +@url{http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB.html}. + +After SLIB is installed, the following Scheme expression must be +executed before the SLIB facilities can be used: =20 @lisp (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) @end lisp =20 @findex require +@noindent @code{require} can then be used in the usual way (@pxref{Require,,, slib, The SLIB Manual}). For example, =20 --=20 1.5.4.3