We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.5. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features.
You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.tar.gz SHA1 hash: 3ef611cf5c4998a5bdfc7935765bb68730038614 A GPG detached signature of the package is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.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: - Infrastructure changes - Guile repository switched from CVS to Git - Add support for `pkg-config' - New modules (see the manual for details) - `(srfi srfi-88)' - New features (see the manual for details) - New `postfix' read option, for SRFI-88 keyword syntax - Some I/O primitives have been inlined, which improves I/O performance - New object-based traps infrastructure - New support for working on Guile code from within Emacs - Bugs fixed - `scm_add_slot ()' no longer segfaults (fixes bug #22369) - Fixed `(ice-9 match)' for patterns like `((_ ...) ...)' - `(oop goops describe)' now properly provides the `describe' feature - Fixed `args-fold' from `(srfi srfi-37)' - `(srfi srfi-35)' is now visible through `cond-expand' - Fixed type-checking for the second argument of `eval' - Fixed type-checking for SRFI-1 `partition' - Fixed `struct-ref' and `struct-set!' on "light structs" - Honor struct field access rights in GOOPS - Changed the storage strategy of source properties, which fixes a deadlock - Allow compilation of Guile-using programs in C99 mode with GCC 4.3 and later - Fixed build issue for GNU/Linux on IA64 - Fixed build issues on NetBSD 1.6 - Fixed build issue on Solaris 2.10 x86_64 - Fixed build issue with DEC/Compaq/HP's compiler - Fixed `scm_from_complex_double' build issue on FreeBSD - Fixed `alloca' build issue on FreeBSD 6 - Removed use of non-portable makefile constructs - Fixed shadowing of libc's <random.h> on Tru64, which broke compilation - Make sure all tests honor `$TMPDIR' - Changes to the distribution - New FAQ Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.8.*. You can follow Guile development in the Git repository and on the Guile mailing lists. Guile builds from the `master' branch of Git 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 report bugs through the Savannah bug tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=guile Alternatively, bug reports can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. We also welcome reports of successful builds, which can be sent to the same email address. Ludovic Courtès, on behalf of the Guile team. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
