Re: [ANN] guile-curl 0.8 released

["Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aconchillo@gmail.com>]

Btw, github's https url works perfectly. Thanks!

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:50 PM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
<aconchillo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Great! This new version works fine and is now available in homebrew guile :-).
>
> One minor thing is that I was using brew defaults and I think they add
> more make jobs (i.e. -jN where N > 1). This meant that curl.scm was
> built before the extension and therefore it failed. To solve it I just
> forced it to "make -j1", which is totally fine since there are just a
> few files.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Aleix
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:33 PM Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am pleased to announce the release of guile-curl 0.8.  This is a
> > library for fetching files by URL from the internet in the GNU Guile
> > dialect of the Scheme programming language.  It wraps functionality
> > provided by the libcurl library.  It supports many protocols, such as
> > https, ftp, tftp, gopher, and smtp, and it has many options for
> > proxies.
> >
> > In the previous release, Aleix and Ricardo reported that it failed to
> > build or pass its test suite.  I couldn't reproduce those problems on
> > my boxes, but, hopefully this hack improves the situation.
> >
> > The development tree is at
> >   https://github.com/spk121/guile-curl
> >
> > For a source archive from a javascript-free location, there is
> >   http://lonelycactus.com/tarball/guile_curl-0.8.tar.gz
> > The md5 sum is at
> >   http://lonelycactus.com/tarball/guile_curl-0.8.tar.gz.md5
> > and is
> >   01eda6d02f8ac1568db3a1a0ef3781a5  guile_curl-0.8.tar.gz
> >
> > Alternately, you can find it under the Github release page.  The
> > versions found here are unbootstrapped.  They are, however, https.
> >   https://github.com/spk121/guile-curl/releases
> >
> > There is a webpage -- in need of updating -- at
> >   http://www.lonelycactus.com/guile-curl.html
> >
> > For Release 0.8 - Jan 11, 2021
> >
> >     - Eliminate all traces of gnulib
> >     - Use srfi-64 for test scripts
> >     - Avoid recursive automake
> >     - Simplify build somewhat
> >     - When CURL constants and enums are not present, the Guile versions
> >       will be #f, instead of undefined
> >     - Use pkg-config instead of curl-config to gather information
> >       about the libcurl install
> >     - Remove ChangeLog
> >
> > There is no mailing list for this project.  Feel free to contact
> > me directly if you have any questions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike Gran
> >
> >
> >