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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:
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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