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ioext.c (%read-line): Return a cons of the input line and its terminator. fports.c, genio.c, genio.h, ports.c, ports.h: Change fgets methods to return the string length as well as its contents.
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Here are some guidelines for working on the Guile source tree at GNU.
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- We use CVS to manage the Guile sources. The repository lives on
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totoro.red-bean.com, in /u/src/master; you will need an account on
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that machine to access the repository. Also, for security reasons,
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totoro presently only supports CVS connections via the SSH protocol,
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so you must first install the SSH client. Then, you should set your
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CVS_RSH environment variable to ssh, and use the following as your CVS
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root:
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:ext:USER@guile-cvs.red-bean.com:/u/src/master
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Either set your CVSROOT environment variable to that, or give it as
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the value of the global -d option to CVS when you check out a working
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directory.
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For more information on SSH, see http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh.
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The Guile sources live in several modules:
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- guile-core --- the interpreter, QuickThreads, and ice-9
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- guile-doc --- documentation in progress. When complete, this will
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be incorporated into guile-core.
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- guile-tcltk --- the Guile/Tk interface
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- guile-tk --- the new Guile/Tk interface, based on STk's modified Tk
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- guile-rgx-ctax --- the Guile/Rx interface, and the ctax implementation
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- guile-scsh --- the port of SCSH to guile, talk to Gary Houston
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- guile-comp --- the Hobbit compiler (talk to mdj)
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- guile-emacs --- Guile/Emacs interface (talk to mdj)
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- guile-oops --- The Guile Object-Oriented Programming System (talk to mdj)
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- guile-www --- A Guile module for making HTTP requests.
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- As for any part of Project GNU, changes to Guile should follow the
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GNU coding standards. The standards are available via anonymous FTP
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from prep.ai.mit.edu, as /pub/gnu/standards/standards.texi and
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make-stds.texi.
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- Check Makefile.in and configure files into CVS, as well as any files
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used to create them (Makefile.am, configure.in); don't check in
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Makefiles or header files generated by configuration scripts. The
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general rule is that you should be able to check out a working
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directory of Guile from CVS, and then type "configure" and "make".
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- Make sure your changes compile and work, at least on your own
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machine, before checking them into the main branch of the Guile
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repository. If you really need to check in untested changes, make a
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branch.
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- When you make a user-visible change (i.e. one that should be
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documented, and appear in NEWS, put an asterisk in column zero of the
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start of the ChangeLog entry, like so:
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Sat Aug 3 01:27:14 1996 Gary Houston <ghouston@actrix.gen.nz>
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* * fports.c (scm_open_file): don't return #f, throw error.
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When you've written a NEWS entry and updated the documentation, go
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ahead and remove the asterisk. I will use the asterisks to find and
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document changes that haven't been dealt with before a release.
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- Include each log entry in both the ChangeLog and in the CVS logs.
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If you're using Emacs, the pcl-cvs interface to CVS has features to
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make this easier; it checks the ChangeLog, and generates good default
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CVS log entries from that.
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- There's no need to keep a change log for documentation files. This
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is because documentation is not susceptible to bugs that are hard to
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fix. Documentation does not consist of parts that must interact in a
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precisely engineered fashion; to correct an error, you need not know
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the history of the erroneous passage. (This is copied from the GNU
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coding standards.)
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- If you add or remove files, don't forget to update the appropriate
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part of the relevant Makefile.am files, and regenerate the
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Makefile.in. If you forget this, the snapshot and distribution
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processes will not work.
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- Make sure you have papers from people before integrating their
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changes or contributions. This is very frustrating, but very
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important to do right. From maintain.texi, "Information for
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Maintainers of GNU Software":
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When incorporating changes from other people, make sure to follow the
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correct procedures. Doing this ensures that the FSF has the legal
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right to distribute and defend GNU software.
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For the sake of registering the copyright on later versions ofthe
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software you need to keep track of each person who makes significant
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changes. A change of ten lines or so, or a few such changes, in a
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large program is not significant.
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*Before* incorporating significant changes, make sure that the person
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has signed copyright papers, and that the Free Software Foundation has
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received them.
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If you receive contributions you want to use from someone, let me know
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and I'll take care of the administrivia. Put the contributions aside
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until we have the necessary papers.
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- When you make substantial changes to a file, add the current year to
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the list of years in the copyright notice at the top of the file.
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- [From Mikael Djurfeldt] When working on the Guile internals, it is
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quite often practical to implement a scheme-level procedure which
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helps you examine the feature you're working on.
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Examples of such procedures are: pt-size, debug-hand and
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current-pstate.
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I've now put #ifdef GUILE_DEBUG around all such procedures, so that
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they are not compiled into the "normal" Guile library. Please do the
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same when you add new procedures/C functions for debugging purpose.
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You can define the GUILE_DEBUG flag by passing --enable-guile-debug to
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the configure script.
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Jim Blandy
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