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* GUILE-VERSION: Bumped version numbers. * configure.in: Removed --enable-arrays option. * srfi-1.scm, srfi-60.scm: Updated versions in library name to match GUILE-VERSION. * goops.texi (Basic Generic Function Creation): Added blurb about merge-generics duplicates handler from NEWS-
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We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.7.90. This is a
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release candidate for Guile 1.8. It can be found here:
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ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.7.90.tar.gz
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Its MD5 checksum is
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The NEWS file is quite long. Here are the most interesting entries:
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Changes since 1.6:
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* Guile is now licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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* The manual is now licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License.
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* We now use GNU MP for bignums.
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* We now have exact rationals, such as 1/3.
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* We now use native POSIX threads for real concurrent threads.
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* There is a new way to initalize Guile that allows one to use Guile
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from threads that have not been created by Guile.
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* Mutexes and condition variables are now always fair. A recursive
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mutex must be requested explicitely.
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* The low-level thread API has been removed.
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* There is now support for copy-on-write substrings and
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mutation-sharing substrings.
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* A new family of functions for converting between C values and
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Scheme values has been added that is future-proof and thread-safe.
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* The INUM macros like SCM_MAKINUM have been deprecated.
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* The macros SCM_STRINGP, SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_LENGTH,
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SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, and SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH have been deprecated.
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* There is a new way to deal with non-local exits and re-entries in
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C code, which is nicer than scm_internal_dynamic_wind.
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* There are new malloc-like functions that work better than
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scm_must_malloc, etc.
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* There is a new way to access all kinds of vectors and arrays from
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C that is efficient and thread-safe.
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* The concept of dynamic roots has been factored into continuation
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barriers and dynamic states.
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See NEWS and the manual for more details.
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