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NEWS
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Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Changes since Guile 1.2:
* Changes to the distribution
* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
* Changes to the procedure for linking libguile with your programs
* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
** A new procedure primitive-exit can be used to terminate the current
process without unwinding the Scheme stack. This would usually be used
after a fork.
Changes in Guile 1.2:
* Changes to the gh_ interface
* Changes to the scm_ interface
Changes in Guile 1.2 (released Tuesday, June 24 1997):
* Changes to the distribution
@ -490,7 +504,7 @@ returns #f. This might be a more appropriate catch-all handler for
new dynamic roots and threads.
Changes in Guile 1.1 (Fri May 16 1997):
Changes in Guile 1.1 (released Friday, May 16 1997):
* Changes to the distribution.

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README
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This is release 1.2 of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme
This is a nightly snapshot 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.
About 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-core-snap.tar.gz.
Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
For getit, that's: ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
About This Distribution ==============================================
@ -45,70 +69,6 @@ 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
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>
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.
Authors And Contributors =============================================
Many people have generously contributed to Guile. However, any errors

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RELEASE
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It's specific to the FSF's development environment; please don't put
it in the distribution.
In release 1.2:
- note that #/ syntax is going to go away.
- fix all uses of #/ in the dist.
In release 1.3:
- make #/ generate a warning.
@ -34,10 +30,11 @@ HP/UX (gcc, HP cc) --- nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu
4) Update the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION, and README, to remove the
"unreleased" indications. They should be straight numbers, of the form
"N.M", not alpha numbers, of the form "N.Ma".
5) Choose new interface numbers for shared libraries.
6) Do a `cvs update -A', to get rid of any sticky tags.
7) Commit all changes to the CVS repository.
8) Verify that the disty works, too:
5) Set up README appropriately for the release.
6) Choose new interface numbers for shared libraries.
7) Do a `cvs update -A', to get rid of any sticky tags.
8) Commit all changes to the CVS repository.
9) Verify that the disty works, too:
a) Make a disty, using 'make dist'.
b) Unpack it somewhere else.
c) Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off their
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d) Configure, make, and install.
e) Test the installed version; don't forget to unset SCHEME_LOAD_PATH.
f) If you made any fixes, commit them, and start from a) again
9) Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form "release_N_M".
10) Copy the tar file over to the GNU machines, and ask the appropriate
10) Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form "release_N_M".
11) Copy the tar file over to the GNU machines, and ask the appropriate
person to put it on prep. At the time of this writing, Daniel Hagerty
<hag@ai.mit.edu> has been generous about helping with that.
11) Send an announcement message to gnu-announce@prep.ai.mit.edu. If I
remember correctly, the moderator will delay it until the tar file
appears on prep. The announcement text should be mostly taken from
Guile's README file.
12) Tweak the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION, and README to indicate that
12) Send an announcement message to gnu-announce@prep.ai.mit.edu. Put
"Obtaining Guile" first, then a brief summary of the changes in
this release, then "Thanks," "About This Distribution," and
"Nightly Snapshots." If I remember correctly, the moderator will
delay it until the tar file appears on prep. The announcement
text should be mostly taken from Guile's README file.
13) Tweak the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION, and README to indicate that
the sources are snapshot again. Snapshots should have version numbers
of the form "N.Ma", where the "a" means "alpha".
13) Start a new section of the NEWS file.
14) Send mail to majordomo-owner@cygnus.com updating the message you get
14) Start a new section of the NEWS file.
15) Send mail to majordomo-owner@cygnus.com updating the message you get
when you ask majordomo for "info guile".