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.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: GNU Guile 1.8.5 released Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 21:28:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87d4nxrk0l.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 1210188567 11376 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 19:29:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 19:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 21:30:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JtpKs-0007E5-2k for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 21:29:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtpK9-0008Iw-UH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtpK7-0008Ip-Mc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtpK7-0008Ic-43 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58669 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtpK6-0008IZ-Vo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:07 -0400 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 1JtpK6-0000Qm-Em for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JtpK0-0006Tf-1l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 19:29:00 +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 ; Wed, 07 May 2008 19:29:00 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 19:29:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.lisp.guile.user Original-Lines: 104 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 19 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Flor=E9al?= an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.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: sha1:6+nwlIquzMX15XSZqjNqK0PBuG4= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:7217 gmane.lisp.guile.user:6561 Archived-At: We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.5. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.tar.gz SHA1 hash: 3ef611cf5c4998a5bdfc7935765bb68730038614 A GPG detached signature of the package is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.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: - Infrastructure changes - Guile repository switched from CVS to Git - Add support for `pkg-config' - New modules (see the manual for details) - `(srfi srfi-88)' - New features (see the manual for details) - New `postfix' read option, for SRFI-88 keyword syntax - Some I/O primitives have been inlined, which improves I/O performance - New object-based traps infrastructure - New support for working on Guile code from within Emacs - Bugs fixed - `scm_add_slot ()' no longer segfaults (fixes bug #22369) - Fixed `(ice-9 match)' for patterns like `((_ ...) ...)' - `(oop goops describe)' now properly provides the `describe' feature - Fixed `args-fold' from `(srfi srfi-37)' - `(srfi srfi-35)' is now visible through `cond-expand' - Fixed type-checking for the second argument of `eval' - Fixed type-checking for SRFI-1 `partition' - Fixed `struct-ref' and `struct-set!' on "light structs" - Honor struct field access rights in GOOPS - Changed the storage strategy of source properties, which fixes a deadlock - Allow compilation of Guile-using programs in C99 mode with GCC 4.3 and later - Fixed build issue for GNU/Linux on IA64 - Fixed build issues on NetBSD 1.6 - Fixed build issue on Solaris 2.10 x86_64 - Fixed build issue with DEC/Compaq/HP's compiler - Fixed `scm_from_complex_double' build issue on FreeBSD - Fixed `alloca' build issue on FreeBSD 6 - Removed use of non-portable makefile constructs - Fixed shadowing of libc's on Tru64, which broke compilation - Make sure all tests honor `$TMPDIR' - Changes to the distribution - New FAQ Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.8.*. You can follow Guile development in the Git repository and on the Guile mailing lists. Guile builds from the `master' branch of Git 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 report bugs through the Savannah bug tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=guile Alternatively, bug reports can be sent to `bug-guile@gnu.org'. We also welcome reports of successful builds, which can be sent to the same email address. Ludovic Courtès, on behalf of the Guile team.