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 1.6.1 is available. Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:39:20 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y96q5uxz.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 1040020809 1053 80.91.224.249 (16 Dec 2002 06:40:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 06:40:09 +0000 (UTC) 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 18Nov4-0000GM-00 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:40:02 +0100 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 18NovM-00060C-00 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Nov1-0005i5-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Nouu-0005P4-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from n66644228.ipcdsl.net ([66.64.4.228] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NouS-0004vY-00; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:39:25 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAF0F0C0; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:39:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 106B6950DE; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:39:20 -0600 (CST) Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) 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:1831 gmane.lisp.guile.user:1450 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1831 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-1.6.1.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. Some highlights of the 1.6.1 release: - Guile now provide and uses an "effective" version number. Guile now provides scm_effective_version and effective-version functions which return the "effective" version number. This is just the normal full version string without the final micro-version number, so the current effective-version is "1.6". The effective version should remain unchanged during a stable series, and should be used for items like the versioned share directory name i.e. /usr/share/guile/1.6. Providing an unchanging version number during a stable release for things like the versioned share directory can be particularly important for Guile "add-on" packages, since it provides a directory that they can install to that won't be changed out from under them with each micro release during a stable series. - Guile now uses it's own version of libltdl. Guile now uses its own modified version of libltdl (1.4.3) found in ./guile-libltdl which includes a variety of bugfixes and enhancements. We auto generate patches against copies of the upstream source so it's easy to forward our modifications to the libtool developers. - The Emacs interface has been fixed. - The SRFI C headers are now installed. See the NEWS file for further information about this release. 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. This release is version 1.6.1. Any bugs found will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.6.2, 1.6.3, and so on. 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