We are pleased to announce Guile release 1.8.1. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.
You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.1.tar.gz SHA1 checksum: 184555def153fdbc322045b1fdd90a7b23a84fbd 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, 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. Please see the NEWS file for a full summary of the changes, but here are the highlights: - LFS functions are now used to access 64-bit files on 32-bit systems. - New procedures (see the manual for details) - primitive-_exit - [Scheme] the-root-module - scm_primitive__exit - [C] - make-completion-function - [Scheme] (ice-9 readline) - scm_c_locale_stringn_to_number - [C] - scm_srfi1_append_reverse [C] - scm_srfi1_append_reverse_x [C] - scm_log - [C] - scm_log10 - [C] - scm_exp - [C] - scm_sqrt - [C] - Bugs fixed - Build problems have been fixed on MacOS, SunOS, and QNX. - A one-dimensional array can now be 'equal?' to a vector. - Structures, records, and SRFI-9 records can now be compared with `equal?'. - SRFI-14 standard char sets are recomputed upon a successful `setlocale'. - `record-accessor' and `record-modifier' now have strict type checks. - It is now OK to use both autoload and use-modules on a given module. - The evaluator checks the number of arguments more correctly. - The srfi-1 assoc function now calls its equality predicate properly. - A bug in n-par-for-each and n-for-each-par-map has been fixed. - The array-set! procedure no longer segfaults when given a bit vector. - Bugs in make-shared-array have been fixed. - string<? and friends now follow char<? etc. order on 8-bit chars. - The format procedure now handles inf and nan values correctly for ~f. - exact->inexact should no longer overflow when given certain large fractions. - srfi-9 accessor and modifier procedures now have strict record type checks. - The (ice-9 ftw) procedures will no longer ignore files with the same inode number on different devices. 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, 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
