release notes: Dipping a toe into Guile 2. :-D
thi
README excerpt:
This is the Guile WWW library, a set of Guile Scheme
modules to facilitate HTTP, URL and CGI programming.
NEWS excerpt:
- 2.35 | 2012-11-06
- support for "make installcheck"
This does "make check" at its core, so the same env vars apply.
Obviously, you should do "make install" first for sane results.
- ‘receive-response’ spec takes thunk for ‘custom’ handling
This means that instead of using:
(list 'custom (values P1 P2 P3 P4))
to construct a ‘receive-response’ spec, you can use:
(list 'custom (lambda () (values P1 P2 P3 P4)))
In fact, this is now the preferred way, as support for using
‘values’ directly is now deemed a misfeature and marked for
eventual removal (see below).
- tested against Guile 2.0.6
There are some deprecation warnings, however.
- MARKED FOR REMOVAL
- 2013-05-15 support for values in ‘receive-response’ spec
Out of an explicit ‘call-with-values’ context, Guile 2.x will
silently discard all values but the first if the continuation
expects one value only (the common case).
(cons 0 (values 1 2)) => (0 . 1)
Thus, the ‘receive-response’ spec constructed by:
(list 'custom (values P1 P2 P3 P4))
fails to preserve P2, P3, P4 (w/ Guile 2.x). See above for
thunk support, the future-proof way to specify ‘custom’ procs.
- bootstrap tools upgrade
- GNU Autoconf 2.69
- GNU Automake 1.12.4
- Guile-BAUX 20121026.1208.c21074a
home page:
http://www.nongnu.org/guile-www/
patronage:
http://www.gnuvola.org/patronage.html
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