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Guile HEAD on the upcoming Cygwin-1.7 [1]
Good news first: I can't reproduce the infamous "threaded Guile hangs on
quit" error. (Cygwin has been shipping single-threaded Guile up to now.)
Guile builds with only minor hiccups. I hope these can be fixed before
the prerelease.
Hey,
Not yet done with my part of the NEWS, though I hope to finish by noon
or so tomorrow. But here is some of what I have, for review:
** The stack limit is now initialized from the environment.
If getrlimit(2) is available and a stack limit is set, Guile will set
its stack limit to 80% of the
Hello!
Mike Gran writes:
> Setting a port's default encoding to Latin-1 doesn't work out so well in
> practice. For example, ports are used as the backend of procedures like
> with-input-from-file and with-output-to-string. Those procedures don't
> currently take any encoding information and p
Hey,
Andy Wingo writes:
>>> + uniform-array->bytevector
>>
>> I would not export it from `(rnrs bytevector)' given that it has nothing
>> to do with RnRS.
>
> No, but it does have to with bytevectors... Where would you put it?
Dunno, maybe not anywhere public?
>> Also, I would make t
Mark H Weaver writes:
> I know I'm new here, but I'm sure we can all agree that Andy Wingo has
> earned a spot in the top section of the THANKS file.
And `AUTHORS' as well I guess. :-)
Ludo'.
Hello!
Ken Raeburn writes:
> I've updated to recent Emacs sources and Guile 1.8.6. I've gotten it
> to a point where it seems to start up fine in tty mode, reads in (and
> does color highlighting of) C files and directories, does some other
> basic stuff.
Woowww, impressive! Looking forward t
Hello,
Andy Wingo writes:
> Specifically, I am going to remove the following NEWS entries, which are
> great stuff but thankfully invisible to the user:
>
> ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid
>
> ** Primitive procedures (aka. "subrs") are now stored in double cells
> This
Hello!
Neil Jerram writes:
> Julian Graham writes:
>
>>> ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid
>>
>> ** Guile now uses components from Gnulib for portability to a wider
>> variety of POSIX and non-POSIX systems.
>
> I see where you're heading with this, but for me this NEWS item stil
Andy Wingo writes:
> One question is that I've been calling this thing 1.9.1 under the
> assumption that we made a 1.9.0; but that does not seem to be the case.
> Should this one be 1.9.0 or 1.9.1?
I'd say 1.9.0.
> guile-config and pkg-config
We should deprecate the former, BTW, if this hasn't
Andy Wingo writes:
> Autocompiled files will be stored in the user's ~/.guile-ccache
> directory, which will be created if needed. This is analogous to
> ccache's behavior for C files.
>
As long as nothing is set in stone, perhaps you want to consider
following the XDG basedir spec[0], which woul
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