From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Guile 1.6.4 has been released. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:53:19 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87he8rvd8w.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050954926 1655 80.91.224.249 (21 Apr 2003 19:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 21:55:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197hNN-0000OS-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:54:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197hNl-0004nj-07 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197hMW-0003jX-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197hMR-0003WQ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197hLs-0002kP-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2001425A; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:53:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE44C2150F7; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:53:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: gnu-announce@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Original-cc: guile-user@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2195 gmane.lisp.guile.user:1800 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2195 We are pleased to announce the availability of a new Guile release. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.6 stable series. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.6.4.tar.gz. Guile is Project GNU's extension language library, an interpreter for Scheme, packaged as a library that you can link into your applications to give them their own scripting language. Guile should eventually support other languages as well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages. This is primarily a bugfix release. Highlights include: - Various architecture (and compiler optimization) related bugs have been fixed: these changes should improve the situation on at least ia64, arm, m68k, alpha, and powerpc. - Readline prompt problem fixed: previously, the readline prompt disappeared when running Guile in non-echoing terminal mode (for example under GDB in Emacs). - Printing bug fixed: previously, the state of writingp in the print state could be altered by recursive calls to printing functions. - syntax-case bugs have been fixed - eqv? and equal? are now primitive generic functions: this means that it is possible to provide custom comparisons for new classes by specializing `eqv?' and `equal?' to those classes. - GOOPS/GC bug fixed: the class layout slot, which informs the GC about which slots to GC protect, is now initialized correctly. - GOOPS class redefinition bug fixed: the class redefinition protocol now properly removes the old accessor methods from their accessors. - GOOPS method dispatch bug fixed: previously, the code updating the method cache in generic functions got confused if handed method code created in a null environment (environment = empty list). It now stands every environment imaginable (think about it!). - GOOPS init-thunks can now be primitive procedures: previously, attempts to provide something else than a closure as value for the #:init-thunk slot option would yield a segmentation fault. Now, it's possible to supply a primitive procedure as init-thunk. Non-allowed values result in an error. - GOOPS longer creates layout entries for non-instance slots. - Garbage collection frequency improved for large malloc heaps: the decision when to run the GC is now done in a way that avoids GCs with a small yield for heaps with a large amount of malloced storage. The minimum expected yield for malloc storage is now relative to the heap size, and not a fixed amount as it was previously. - Append mode in hooks: append mode in hooks (adding the hook last in the list) now works correctly. - %fast-slot-ref no longer checks slot boundness: this makes the metaclass in (oop goops active-slot) working again. - New snarf macros: SCM_PRIMITIVE_GENERIC, SCM_PRIMITIVE_GENERIC_1. These provide a way of adding primitive generics which is equivalent to SCM_DEFINE and SCM_DEFINE1. The Guile WWW page is located at http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html It contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists, among other things. Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.6.*. The next stable Guile release with significant functional improvements will be version 1.8.0. In between 1.6.x and 1.8.x, you can follow Guile development in CVS and in the Guile mailing lists (see ANON-CVS and HACKING). Guile builds from the development branch of CVS will have version number 1.7.0. Guile versions with an odd middle number, i.e. 1.5.* 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. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel