Hi folks, a new stable release of librep is available for download now.
What is librep? =============== Librep is a shared library implementing a Lisp dialect that is lightweight, reasonably fast, and highly extensible. It had been authored by John Harper. It contains an interpreter, byte-code compiler and virtual machine. Applications may use the interpreter as an extension language, or it may be used for standalone scripts. Rep was originally inspired by Emacs Lisp. However one of the main deficiencies of elisp--the reliance on dynamic scope--has been removed. Also, rep only has a single namespace for symbols. Librep is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, copyright John Harper, and is known to compile on at least the following architectures: Alpha AMD64 ARM ARMEL HPPA IA-32 IA-64 M68k MIPS MIPSEL PowerPC PowerPC-64 S390 SPARC X86 (according to Debian documentation). Where to get it? ================ Tar/BZ2: http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/librep/librep-0.91.0.tar.bz2 625 K SHA1SUM: http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/librep/librep-0.91.0.tar.bz2.sha1 Tar/XZ : http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/librep/librep-0.91.0.tar.xz 580 K SHA1SUM: http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/librep/librep-0.91.0.tar.xz.sha1 What's new? =========== 0.91.0 ====== * Update note [important]: You need to rebuild rep-gtk and sawfish against this version of librep, because of an ABI-change. Your lisp files have to be byte-compiled again, too. * Halfway improved `debug-on-error' and `backtrace-on-error' [Teika Kazura] Previously, setting these values to `t' triggered the debugger / backtracer even if the error was signalled inside of `condition-case'. This behavior can still be obtained by setting them to the symbol `always'. Now, if they're `t', the debugger / backtracer is invoked only if the control is not inside of any `condition-case'. Notice that the condition is NOT if the error is actually handled by an error handler. It is not the best, but we can't improve it. The default value of `backtrace-on-error' is now `t'. * When you evaluate a closure interactively, the module it belongs to is printed, too. [Teika kazura] * Improved functions' docstring support [Teika Kazura] Handling of functions' docstring is improved. The revised `documenation' function is ensured to return the docstring of functions, macros, and special forms (*note Docstrings::). Previously, fuctions' docstrings of byte-compiled user-files (eg: pager.jlc) were lost, but not now. * New function `subr-structure' [Teika Kazura] It returns the module a subr belongs to. * Major documentation revision [Teika kazura] Reorganized documentation files. Many capital letter name files were updated or merged into the info. New entries: *Note Crash course for Elisp users::, *Note Closures::, on leading tilde in a filename and tarball access (*note File Handlers::), fully revised the module section (*note Modules::), improved description on invocation (*note Invocation::), improved "fluid" and `let' descriptions (*note Fluid Variables::, and *note Local Variables::), improved the read syntax of character (*note Characters::). Module names are supplied for all functions. Supplied documentation to some functions: Input stream functions `peek-char', `read-char' (*note Input Functions::), list functions `remove-if', `remove-if-not' (*note Mapping Functions::), `table-size' (*note Hash Tables::), `setcar', `setcdr' and `cdddr' family (*note Cons Cells::), `assoc-regexp' (*note Association Lists::). * `define-special-variable' is replaced by `defvar-setq' [Teika kazura] The former is still valid, but it's a very confusing name, therefore the latter is introduced. * Makefile's uninstall rule has been fixed [Christopher Bratusek] ===== Have fun, Chris
