We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.3. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.
You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.3.tar.gz SHA1 checksum: 26cf7b70d4caff8fe2a5fbcc363f2457bc591c2b A GPG detached signature of the package is available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.3.tar.gz.sig The Guile web page is located at http://www.gnu.org/software/guile, and among other things, it contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists. Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. In addition to implementing the R5RS Scheme standard, Guile includes a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, and powerful string processing. Guile can run interactively or as a script interpreter, and is also packaged as a library so that applications can easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter. An application can use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration language, or as multi-purpose "glue" to connect primitives provided by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code from C code and vice versa. Applications can add new functions, data types, control structures, and even syntax to Guile, to create a domain-specific language tailored to the task at hand. This is primarily a bugfix release. Here are the highlights, taken from the `NEWS' file: - New modules (see the manual for details) - `(srfi srfi-35)' - `(srfi srfi-37)' - Bugs fixed - The `(ice-9 slib)' module now works as expected - Expressions like "(set! 'x #t)" no longer yield a crash - Warnings about duplicate bindings now go to stderr - A memory leak in `make-socket-address' was fixed - Alignment issues (e.g., on SPARC) in network routines were fixed - A threading issue that showed up at least on NetBSD was fixed - Build problems on Solaris and IRIX fixed - Implementation improvements - The reader is now faster, which reduces startup time - Procedures returned by `record-accessor' and `record-modifier' are faster Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.8.*. You can follow Guile development in CVS and on the Guile mailing lists (see ANON-CVS and HACKING). Guile builds from the development branch of CVS will have version number 1.9.0. Guile versions with an odd middle number, e.g., 1.9.*, are unstable development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions. This has been the case since the 1.3.* series. Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Ludovic Courtès, on behalf of the Guile team. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
