Updated for release.

README

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-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