From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Guile 1.8.0 has been released. Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:03:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87lkw5y9gk.fsf@zagadka.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140497930 30442 80.91.229.2 (21 Feb 2006 04:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 21 05:58:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBPbm-0001Cv-DN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:58:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBPbl-0004QD-IM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:58:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBJ7t-00056R-Nm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBJ7r-00054a-8y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBJ7p-000537-SF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.243.153.35] (helo=smtp2.pp.htv.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FBJDx-0006Pn-28 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from zagadka.ping.de (cs181072157.pp.htv.fi [82.181.72.157]) by smtp2.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 99C13296BA8 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:03:20 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: (qmail 23253 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Feb 2006 00:03:08 +0200 Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5737 gmane.lisp.guile.user:5169 Archived-At: We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.8.0. It can be found here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.0.tar.gz Its SHA1 checksum is 22462680feeda1e5400195c01dee666162503d66 guile-1.8.0.tar.gz We already know about some issues with 1.8.0, please check the mailing lists: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/mail/mail.html The NEWS file is quite long. Here are the most interesting entries: Changes since 1.6: * Guile is now licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License. * The manual is now licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License. * We now use GNU MP for bignums. * We now have exact rationals, such as 1/3. * We now use native POSIX threads for real concurrent threads. * There is a new way to initalize Guile that allows one to use Guile from threads that have not been created by Guile. * Mutexes and condition variables are now always fair. A recursive mutex must be requested explicitely. * The low-level thread API has been removed. * There is now support for copy-on-write substrings and mutation-sharing substrings. * A new family of functions for converting between C values and Scheme values has been added that is future-proof and thread-safe. * The INUM macros like SCM_MAKINUM have been deprecated. * The macros SCM_STRINGP, SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_LENGTH, SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, and SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH have been deprecated. * There is a new way to deal with non-local exits and re-entries in C code, which is nicer than scm_internal_dynamic_wind. * There are new malloc-like functions that work better than scm_must_malloc, etc. * There is a new way to access all kinds of vectors and arrays from C that is efficient and thread-safe. * The concept of dynamic roots has been factored into continuation barriers and dynamic states. See NEWS and the manual for more details. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel