From ada6acd008241dd33adaa83909c93ed8fa9d0d64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:30:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated for release. --- README | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index edaa2dddc..a80d6bfe3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,46 +1,10 @@ -This is a nightly snapshot of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme +This is release 1.2 of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building extensible programs. Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu. - -Important Facts About Snapshots ====================================== - -Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental; they -will usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on some -systems. They may contain interfaces which will change. They will -usually not be of sufficient quality for use by people not comfortable -hacking the innards of Guile. Caveat! - -However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons. We'd like -to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile. People -willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access -to new, experimental features. Patches submitted relative to recent -snapshots will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the -patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with. -And it allows us to start testing features earlier. - -Nightly snapshots of the Guile development sources are available via -anonymous FTP from ftp.red-bean.com, as /pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz. - -Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz -For getit, that's: ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz - - -The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from -prep.ai.mit.edu, as /pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz. - -Via the web, that's: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz -For getit, that's: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz - -The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions, -and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to -guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and -fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu. - - About This Distribution ============================================== Building and installing this distribution gives you: @@ -81,6 +45,70 @@ qt: A cooperative threads package from Washington University, manual is incomplete, and is currently being revised.) +Obtaining Guile ====================================================== + +The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from +prep.ai.mit.edu, as /pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz. + +Via the web, that's: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz +For getit, that's: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz + +The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions, +and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to +guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and +fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu. + + +Thanks =============================================================== + +The FSF thanks the following people for generous contributions of +their time and talents: +- Tim Pierce, for the light-weight SCSH-compatible regexp interface, + tracking down Solaris problems, and miscellaneous bug fixes +- Gary Houston, for continued work on the system call support +- Anthony Green, for help debugging problems on Solaris under Sun's + compiler, and general thread expertise +- Marius Vollmer, for tracking down bad interactions between the threading + system and the interpreter, and improving the way structures print +- Bernard URBAN, for making Hobbit work with Guile, and bug reports +- Marcus Daniels and Russ McManus, for work on the cygwin (or + gnu-win32) port. + +And thanks for bug reports and fixes from Aleksandar Bakic, Thomas +Bushnell, Marcus Daniels, Bill Janssen, Russell McManus, Bill Nell, +Larry Schwimmer, Maciej Stachowiak, Bruce Stephens, Maurizio Vitale, +and YABUKI Youichi. + +Naturally, any bugs remaining in the release are the maintainer's +responsibility. + +Also, thanks to Pat Eyler, for his work on the Guile web pages! + + +Nightly Snapshots ==================================================== + +Each night, we make the current Guile sources available via anonymous +FTP. Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly +experimental; they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even +compile on some systems. They may contain interfaces which will +change. They will usually not be of sufficient quality for use by +people not comfortable hacking the innards of Guile. Caveat! + +However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons. We'd like +to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile. People +willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access +to new, experimental features. Patches submitted relative to recent +snapshots will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the +patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with. +And it allows us to start testing features earlier. + +Nightly snapshots of the Guile development sources are available via +anonymous FTP from ftp.red-bean.com, as /pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz. + +Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz +For getit, that's: ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz + + Hacking It Yourself ================================================== As distributed, Guile needs only an ANSI C compiler and a Unix system