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 1.8.3 released Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:54:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87zlyiuby4.fsf@chbouib.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 1192560973 21255 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2007 18:56:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:56:13 +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 Tue Oct 16 20:56:14 2007 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 1IhraO-0002Xg-UM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:56:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhraH-0005lb-VB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhraC-0005lV-Sj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhraC-0005lE-40 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhraB-0005lB-Vq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:56:00 -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 1IhraB-0000bK-As for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ihra2-0001q0-BV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:55:50 +0000 Original-Received: from adh419.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:55:50 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by adh419.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:55:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.lisp.guile.user Original-Lines: 72 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adh419.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ 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: i486-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h67HGScx/mMbIN5M2BeETuMpYeE= 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:6841 gmane.lisp.guile.user:6221 Archived-At: We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.3. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.3.tar.gz SHA1 checksum: 26cf7b70d4caff8fe2a5fbcc363f2457bc591c2b A GPG detached signature of the package is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.3.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: - New modules (see the manual for details) - `(srfi srfi-35)' - `(srfi srfi-37)' - Bugs fixed - The `(ice-9 slib)' module now works as expected - Expressions like "(set! 'x #t)" no longer yield a crash - Warnings about duplicate bindings now go to stderr - A memory leak in `make-socket-address' was fixed - Alignment issues (e.g., on SPARC) in network routines were fixed - A threading issue that showed up at least on NetBSD was fixed - Build problems on Solaris and IRIX fixed - Implementation improvements - The reader is now faster, which reduces startup time - Procedures returned by `record-accessor' and `record-modifier' are faster 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. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel