From 01b83dbd1a11735519b7d6ca7b02006b45861c9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Wingo Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:21:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] more NEWS * NEWS: Update. --- NEWS | 197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d68e3e47f..fe6bad134 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ file name docs gnulib version +--language docs + * Notable changes -** New guile.m4 +** New guile.m4. The `guile.m4' autoconf macros have been rewritten to use `guild' and `pkg-config' instead of the deprecated `guile-config' (which itself @@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ There is also a new macro, `GUILE_PKG', which allows packages to select the version of Guile that they want to compile against. See "Autoconf Macros" in the manual, for more information. -** Better Windows support +** Better Windows support. Guile now correctly identifies absolute paths on Windows (MinGW), and creates files on that platform according to its path conventions. See @@ -45,16 +47,16 @@ definitions for FD_SET, FD_ZERO, and other system interface. Guile should not be setting these macros in public API, so this interface was removed on those plaforms (basically only MinGW). -** Gnulib update +** Gnulib update. Guile's copy of Gnulib was updated to XXX. The following modules were imported from Gnulib: select, times, pipe-posix, fstat, getlogin, and poll. -** Optimizations +** New optimizations. There were a number of improvements to the partial evaluator, allowing -complete reduction of forms like: +complete reduction of forms such as: ((let ((_ 10)) (lambda () _))) @@ -70,40 +72,40 @@ them GCD and logarithms. Finally, `array-ref' and `array-set!' on arrays of rank 1 or 2 is now faster, because it avoids building a rest list. -** `include' relative file names relative to including file +** `include' resolves relative file names relative to including file. Given a relative file name, `include' will look for it relative to the directory of the including file. This harmonizes the behavior of `include' with that of `load'. -** SLIB compatibility restored +** SLIB compatibility restored. Guile 2.0.8 is now compatible with SLIB. You will have to use a development version of SLIB, however, until a new version of SLIB is released. -** Better ,trace REPL command +** Better ,trace REPL command. Sometimes the ,trace output for nested function calls could overflow the terminal width, which wasn't useful. Now there is a limit to the amount of space the prefix will take. See the documentation for ",trace" for more information. -** Update predefined character sets to Unicode 6.2 +** Update predefined character sets to Unicode 6.2. * Manual updates -** Better SXML documentation +** Better SXML documentation. The documentation for SXML modules was much improved, though there is still far to go. See "SXML" in manual. -** Style updates +** Style updates. Use of "iff" was replaced with standard English. Keyword arguments are now documented consistently, along with their default values. -** An end to the generated-documentation experiment +** An end to the generated-documentation experiment. When Guile 2.0 imported some modules from Guile-Lib, they came with a system that generated documentation from docstrings and module @@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ bullet and incorporated these modules into the main text, and will be improving them manually over time, as is the case with SXML. Help is appreciated. -** New documentation +** New documentation. There is now documentation for `scm_array_type', and `scm_array_ref', as well as for the new `array-length' / 'scm_c_array_length' / @@ -124,7 +126,7 @@ output formats. * New deprecations -** Deprecate generalized vector interface +** Deprecate generalized vector interface. The generalized vector interface, introduced in 1.8.0, is simply a redundant, verbose interface to arrays of rank 1. `array-ref' and @@ -133,19 +135,19 @@ similar functions are entirely sufficient. Thus, `scm_generalized_vector_ref', `scm_generalized_vector_set_x', and `scm_generalized_vector_to_list' are now deprecated. -** Deprecate SCM_CHAR_CODE_LIMIT and char-code-limit +** Deprecate SCM_CHAR_CODE_LIMIT and char-code-limit. These constants were defined to 256, which is not the highest codepoint supported by Guile. Given that they were useless and incorrect, they have been deprecated. -** Deprecate `http-get*' +** Deprecate `http-get*'. The new `#:streaming?' argument to `http-get' subsumes the functionality of `http-get*'. Also, the `#:extra-headers' argument is deprecated in favor of `#:headers'. -** Deprecate (ice-9 mapping) +** Deprecate (ice-9 mapping). This module, present in Guile since 1996 but never used or documented, has never worked in Guile 2.0. It has now been deprecated and will be @@ -153,79 +155,85 @@ removed in Guile 2.2. * New interfaces -** round-ash +** `round-ash', a bit-shifting operator that rounds on right-shift. -"Bitwise Operations" +See "Bitwise Operations". -** GUILE_STACK_SIZE +** New environment variables: `GUILE_STACK_SIZE', `GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE'. -"Environment Variables" +See "Environment Variables". -** GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE +** New procedures for dealing with file names. -"Environment Variables" +See XXX for documentation on `system-file-name-convention', +`file-name-separator?', `absolute-file-name?', and +`file-name-separator-string'. -** file names +** `array-length', an array's first dimension. -system-file-name-convention, file-name-separator?, -absolute-file-name? file-name-separator-string +See "Array Procedures". -missing docs +** `hash-count', for hash tables. -** array-length +See "Hash Tables". -Array Procedures - -** add hash-count for native tables - -Hash Tables - -** Add foreign types: ssize_t and ptrdiff_t. +** New foreign types: `ssize_t', `ptrdiff_t'. -Foreign Types +See "Foreign Types". -** Add scm_from_ptrdiff_t and scm_to_ptrdiff_t. +** New C helpers: `scm_from_ptrdiff_t', `scm_to_ptrdiff_t'. -Integers +See "Integers". -** much more capable xml->sxml +** Much more capable `xml->sxml' -namespaces, processed entities, doctypes, literal strings... see -"Reading and Writing XML" +See "Reading and Writing XML" for information on how the `xml->sxml' +parser deals with namespaces, processed entities, doctypes, and literal +strings. Incidentally, `current-ssax-error-port' is now a parameter +object. -** add --language argument to guile +** New command-line argument: `--language' -needs docs +See XXX in the manual. -** current-language is a parameter in boot-9 +** `current-language' in default environment. -Compiler Tower; repl, compile-and-load default to current language +Previously defined only in `(system base language)', `current-language' +is now defined in the default environment, and is used to determine the +language for the REPL, and for `compile-and-load'. -** add fluid->parameter +** New procedure: `fluid->parameter' -Parameters in manual +See "Parameters", for information on how to convert a fluid to a +parameter. -** add read-string and read-string! to (ice-9 rdelim) +** New procedures to read all characters from a port -Line/Delimited in manual +See "Line/Delimited" in the manual for documentation on `read-string' + and `read-string!'. -** http-head, http-post, http-put, http-delete, http-trace http-options +** New HTTP client procedures. -"Web Client" +See "Web Client" for documentation on the new `http-head', `http-post', +`http-put', `http-delete', `http-trace', and `http-options' procedures, +and also for more options to `http-get'. -** add bytevector->string and string->bytevector in new (ice-9 iconv) module +** New procedures for converting strings to and from bytevectors. -"Representing Strings as Bytes" +See "Representing Strings as Bytes" for documention on the new `(ice-9 +iconv)' module and its `bytevector->string' and `string->bytevector' +procedures. -** add repl-option for customized print +** New `print' REPL option. -"REPL Commands" in the manual (,option print ...) +See "REPL Commands" in the manual for information on the new +user-customizable REPL printer. -** current-ssax-error-port is a parameter - -** %site-ccache-dir +** New variable: %site-ccache-dir. -"Installing Site Packages", "Build Config" +The "Installing Site Packages" and "Build Config" manual sections now +refer to this variable to describe where users should install their +`.go' files. * Build fixes @@ -233,69 +241,70 @@ Line/Delimited in manual ** Fix cross-compilation of `c-tokenize.o'. ** Fix warning when compiling against glibc 2.17. ** Fix documentation build against Texinfo 5.0. -** Fix building Guile from a directory with non-ASCII characters -** Fix native MinGW build -** Fix MinGW builds with networking, POSIX, and thread support +** Fix building Guile from a directory with non-ASCII characters. +** Fix native MinGW build. +** Fix --disable-posix build. +** Fix MinGW builds with networking, POSIX, and thread support. * Bug fixes -** warn on multithreaded fork - -** allow for spurious wakeups from pthread_cond_wait +** A fork when multiple threads are running will now print a warning. +** Allow for spurious wakeups from pthread_cond_wait. (http://bugs.gnu.org/10641) -** fix psyntax vs autoload +** Warn and ignore module autoload failures. (http://bugs.gnu.org/12202) -** use chmod portably in (system base compile) -** fix response-body-port for responses without content-length -** allow case-lambda expressions with no clauses +** Use chmod portably in (system base compile). + (http://bugs.gnu.org/10474) +** Fix response-body-port for responses without content-length. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/13857) +** Allow case-lambda expressions with no clauses. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/9776) ** Improve standards conformance of string->number. (http://bugs.gnu.org/11887) -** support calls and tail-calls with more than 255 formals -** ,option evaluates its right-hand-side +** Support calls and tail-calls with more than 255 formals. +** ,option evaluates its right-hand-side. (http://bugs.gnu.org/13076) -** structs with tail arrays are not simple +** Structs with tail arrays are not simple. (http://bugs.gnu.org/12808) ** Make `SCM_LONG_BIT' usable in preprocessor conditionals. (http://bugs.gnu.org/13848) ** Fix thread-unsafe lazy initializations. -** Allow the SMOB mark procedures to be called when libgc uses parallel markers. +** Allow SMOB mark procedures to be called from parallel markers. (http://bugs.gnu.org/13611) ** Fix later-bindings-win logic in with-fluids. (http://bugs.gnu.org/13843) ** Fix duplicate removal of with-fluids. (http://bugs.gnu.org/13838) ** Support calling foreign functions of 10 arguments or more. -** Let reverse! accept arbitrary types as second argument (new_tail) + (http://bugs.gnu.org/13809) +** Let reverse! accept arbitrary types as second argument. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/13835) ** Recognize the `x86_64.*-gnux32' triplet. ** Check whether a triplet's OS part specifies an ABI. ** Recognize mips64* as having 32-bit pointers by default. -** remove language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm -** random_state_of_last_resort doesn't rely on HAVE_POSIX -** copy-file, load-objcode, mkstemp use O_BINARY -** fix compilation of functions with more than 255 local variables. +** Remove language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/10622) +** Use O_BINARY in `copy-file', `load-objcode', `mkstemp'. +** Fix compilation of functions with more than 255 local variables. ** Fix `getgroups' for when zero supplementary group IDs exist. -** allow (define-macro name (lambda ...)) -** (texinfo): add a command-spec for @math{}. -** (texinfo docbook): informaltable is a block element. -** (texinfo plain-text): Pass @math{} through as-is. -** (texinfo serialize): don't break words when wrapping +** Allow (define-macro name (lambda ...)). +** Various fixes to the (texinfo) modules. ** guild: Gracefully handle failures to install the locale. -** Fix argument count for various format string escape sequences (in warning pass) +** Fix format string warnings for ~!, ~|, ~/, ~q, ~Q, and ~^. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/13485) ** Fix source annotation bug in psyntax 'expand-body'. -** ecmascript: Fix conversion to boolean for non-numbers. -** fix try-module-autoload, which did not detect failure to find the file - -file not found vs failure to load module. - -** Many (oop goops save) fixes -** http-get: don't shutdown write end of socket -** Avoid signed integer overflow in scm_product -** http: read-response-body always returns bytevector or #f (not EOF in one case) +** Ecmascript: Fix conversion to boolean for non-numbers. +** A failure to find a module's file does not prevent future loading. +** Many (oop goops save) fixes. +** `http-get': don't shutdown write end of socket. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/13095) +** Avoid signed integer overflow in scm_product. +** http: read-response-body always returns bytevector or #f (not EOF in one case). ** web: Correctly detect "No route to host" conditions. ** `system*': failure to execvp no longer leaks dangling processes (http://bugs.gnu.org/13166) ** More sensible case-lambda* dispatch - (http://bugs.gnu.org/12929; see "Case-Lambda" in the manual) + (http://bugs.gnu.org/12929) ** Do not defer expansion of internal define-syntax forms. (http://bugs.gnu.org/13509)