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This is a nightly snapshot of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme
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implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent
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execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building
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extensible programs.
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Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Important Facts About Snapshots ======================================
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Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental;
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they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on
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some systems. They may contain interfaces which will change.
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They will usually not be of sufficient quality for use by people
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not comfortable hacking the innards of Guile. Caveat!
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However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons. We'd like
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to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile. People
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willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access
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to new, experimental features. Patches submitted relative to recent
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snapshots will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the
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patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with.
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And it allows us to start testing features earlier.
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The Guile snapshots are available via anonymous FTP from
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alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu, as /gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz.
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Via the web, that's: ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz
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For getit, that's: alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz
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Contents Of This Distribution ========================================
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Interesting files include:
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- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
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- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
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- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
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Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
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The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
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doc: Documentation for Guile, in Texinfo form.
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libguile:
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The Guile Scheme interpreter, packaged as an object library
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for you to link with your programs.
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guile: An interactive front end for the Guile Scheme interpreter.
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rx: A regular expression matching library, interfaced to Guile.
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ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure.
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lang: A Guile module of tools for writing lexical analyzers and parsers.
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ctax: A Guile module providing a C-like syntax for Scheme.
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gtcltk-lib:
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Glue code for talking to Tcl/Tk from Guile. The Tcl/Tk
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developers have big plans for the next major release of Tcl/Tk
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which will make possible a clean, direct interface between
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Guile and Tk, so we're providing this very simple-minded
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interface until that's ready.
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threads: Glue code for using various threads packages from Guile, including
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qt (see below).
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This distribution also includes `qt', a cooperative threads package
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from Washington University, which Guile can use. Qt is under a
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separate copyright; see `qt/README' for more details.
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The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions,
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and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to
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guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and
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fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Authors And Contributors =============================================
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George Carrette wrote SIOD, a stand-alone scheme interpreter.
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Although most of this code as been rewritten or replaced over time,
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the garbage collector from SIOD is still an important part of Guile.
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Aubrey Jaffer seriously tuned performance and added features. He
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designed many hairy parts of the tag system and evaluator.
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Tom Lord librarified SCM, yielding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating
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system, Ice-9, and connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular
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expression matcher.
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Gary Houston wrote the Unix system call support, including the socket
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support.
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Anthony Green wrote the original version of `threads' the interface
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between Guile and qt.
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Mikael Djurfeldt designed and implemented:
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* the source-level debugger,
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* stack overflow detection,
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* the GDB patches to support debugging mixed Scheme/C code,
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* the original implementation of weak hash tables,
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* the `threads' interface (rewriting Anthony Green's work), and
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* detection of circular references during printing.
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Gary Houston did a lot of work on the error handling code.
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