We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.4. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.
You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.4.tar.gz SHA1 hash: 1e80fe242acfde2bfa39fd1e8409a8f010e24e2b A GPG detached signature of the package is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.4.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: - Bugs fixed - CR (ASCII 0x0d) is (again) recognized as a token delimiter by the reader - Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when displaying the backtrace of a stack with a promise object (made by `delay') in it - Make `accept' leave guile mode while blocking - `scm_c_read ()' and `scm_c_write ()' now type-check their port argument - Fixed a build problem on AIX (use of func_data identifier) - Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when hashx-ref or hashx-set! was called with an associator proc that returns neither a pair nor #f. - Secondary threads now always return a valid module for (current-module). - Avoid MacOS build problems caused by incorrect combination of "64" system and library calls. - `guile-snarf' now honors `$TMPDIR' - `guile-config compile' now reports CPPFLAGS used at compile-time - Fixed build with Sun Studio (Solaris 9) - Fixed wrong-type-arg errors when creating zero length SRFI-4 uniform vectors on AIX. - Fixed a deadlock that occurs upon GC with multiple threads. - Fixed compile problem with GCC on Solaris and AIX (use of _Complex_I) - Fixed autotool-derived build problems on AIX 6.1. - Fixed NetBSD/alpha support - Fixed MacOS build problem caused by use of rl_get_keymap(_name) - New modules (see the manual for details) - `(srfi srfi-69)' - Documentation fixes and improvements - Removed premature breakpoint documentation - More about Guile's default *random-state* variable - GOOPS: more about how to use `next-method' - Changes to the distribution - Corrected a few files that referred incorrectly to the old GPL + special exception licence - Removed unnecessary extra copies of COPYING* 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Ludovic Courtès, on behalf of the Guile team. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
