From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.bugs,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: GNU Guile 1.8.4 released Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:45:15 +0100 Message-ID: <877ih0lixg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203457550 4212 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2008 21:45:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 19 22:46:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRaI1-0001kX-U2 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:46:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRaHX-0004ZM-6U for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:45:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRaHU-0004ZA-45 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:45:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRaHS-0004Wi-Dm for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRaHS-0004WO-5M for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRaHR-0003vP-Lw for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JRaHO-0002RS-IJ for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:45:34 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:45:34 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:45:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.lisp.guile.user Original-Lines: 96 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vent=F4se?= an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6vTbgFYB4EKKTS1gBpl8CO5KuPg= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6424 gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3803 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7031 Archived-At: We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.4. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.4.tar.gz SHA1 hash: 1e80fe242acfde2bfa39fd1e8409a8f010e24e2b A GPG detached signature of the package is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.4.tar.gz.sig The Guile web page is located at http://www.gnu.org/software/guile, and among other things, it contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists. Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. In addition to implementing the R5RS Scheme standard, Guile includes a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, and powerful string processing. Guile can run interactively or as a script interpreter, and is also packaged as a library so that applications can easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter. An application can use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration language, or as multi-purpose "glue" to connect primitives provided by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code from C code and vice versa. Applications can add new functions, data types, control structures, and even syntax to Guile, to create a domain-specific language tailored to the task at hand. This is primarily a bugfix release. Here are the highlights, taken from the `NEWS' file: - Bugs fixed - CR (ASCII 0x0d) is (again) recognized as a token delimiter by the reader - Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when displaying the backtrace of a stack with a promise object (made by `delay') in it - Make `accept' leave guile mode while blocking - `scm_c_read ()' and `scm_c_write ()' now type-check their port argument - Fixed a build problem on AIX (use of func_data identifier) - Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when hashx-ref or hashx-set! was called with an associator proc that returns neither a pair nor #f. - Secondary threads now always return a valid module for (current-module). - Avoid MacOS build problems caused by incorrect combination of "64" system and library calls. - `guile-snarf' now honors `$TMPDIR' - `guile-config compile' now reports CPPFLAGS used at compile-time - Fixed build with Sun Studio (Solaris 9) - Fixed wrong-type-arg errors when creating zero length SRFI-4 uniform vectors on AIX. - Fixed a deadlock that occurs upon GC with multiple threads. - Fixed compile problem with GCC on Solaris and AIX (use of _Complex_I) - Fixed autotool-derived build problems on AIX 6.1. - Fixed NetBSD/alpha support - Fixed MacOS build problem caused by use of rl_get_keymap(_name) - New modules (see the manual for details) - `(srfi srfi-69)' - Documentation fixes and improvements - Removed premature breakpoint documentation - More about Guile's default *random-state* variable - GOOPS: more about how to use `next-method' - Changes to the distribution - Corrected a few files that referred incorrectly to the old GPL + special exception licence - Removed unnecessary extra copies of COPYING* Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.8.*. You can follow Guile development in CVS and on the Guile mailing lists (see ANON-CVS and HACKING). Guile builds from the development branch of CVS will have version number 1.9.0. Guile versions with an odd middle number, e.g., 1.9.*, are unstable development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions. This has been the case since the 1.3.* series. Please send bug reports to `bug-guile@gnu.org'. Ludovic Courtès, on behalf of the Guile team.