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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This message announces the availability of Scheme release scm-5e5. +This message announces the availability of Scheme release scm-5f2. SCM conforms to Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme and the IEEE P1178 specification. SCM is written in C and runs under @@ -11,184 +11,104 @@ under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from SCM's home page: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM + <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SCM> Links to distributions of SCM and related softwares are at the end of this message. -=-=- -scm-5e5 news: - -* SCM is now a GNU package. -* SCM license is now LGPLv3. -* Documentation changed to GNU Free Documentation License. -* scm-discuss email group - http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/scm-discuss - - From Radey Shouman - - * repl.c (isymnames): Add name for IM_EVAL_VALUES. - Fix igc prototype, avert warning. - - * eval.c (scm_eval_values, ceval_1): Catch VALUES arity errors - in top-level repl evaluations. Eg (list (values 1 2)) now - throws an error even when typed to repl. - - * scm.h (IM_EVAL_VALUES): Add isym for use by scm_eval_values. - - From Bob Schumaker - - * macos-config.h, unexmacosx.c, lastfile.c: - Added from Emacs for MacOS (darwin). - - * build.scm (C-libraries): Added dump and dlll darwin entries. - (make-dll-archive, compile-dll-c-files): Added Darwin tagets. - (manifest): Added entries for "macos-config.h" and "lastfile.c". - - * Makefile (all): Make x.so only if /usr/X11R6/lib exists. - (install, installlib): test -d is not needed with mkdir -p. - - From Aubrey Jaffer - - * build, Makefile, scm.spec: Put "-" between "scm" and version. - - * unexelf.c, unexmacosx.c, unexsgi.c, unexsunos4.c, gmalloc.c, - lastfile.c, macos-config.h, r4rstest.scm, syntest2.scm, - unexalpha.c, unexec.c, !#.c, build, build.scm, ecrt0.c, - findexec.c, bench.scm: - Changed license to GPL version 3. - - * Transcen.scm, Tscript.scm, unif.c, unix.c, x.c, xgen.scm, - subr.c, sys.c, time.c, scm.texi, script.c, setjump.h, socket.c, - split.scm, scm.c, scm.h, scmfig.h, scmhob.h, scmhob.scm, - scmmain.c, repl.c, rgx.c, rope.c, sc2.c, scl.c, Macro.scm, - Makefile, mkimpcat.scm, pi.c, pi.scm, posix.c, ramap.c, - record.c, Iedline.scm, Init5e4.scm, Link.scm, Macexp.scm, - inc2scm, ioext.c, Idiffer.scm, gsubr.c, hobbit.scm, .gdbinit, - differ.c, disarm.scm, dynl.c, edline.c, eval.c, - get-contoffset-ia64.c, byte.c, bytenumb.c, compile.scm, - continue-ia64.S, continue.c, continue.h, crs.c, debug.c: - Changed license to LGPL version 3. - - * Tscript.scm: Handle EOF. - - * byte.c (bytes-append, bytes->string, string->bytes): Added. - - * scm.nsi: Create shortcuts at installation; removed SCM.lnk. - (MUI_ICON): Set to "SCM.ico". - - * scm.nsi (Uninstall): Delete tmp1, tmp2, and tmp3, - scmlit.exe, implcat, and slibcat when uninstalling. - - * Makefile ($(htmldir)Xlibscm_toc.html) - ($(htmldir)hobbit_toc.html): Add SCM.ico. - (all): Make differ.so. - (libscm.a, db.so, bytenumb.so, differ.so, myturtle, x.so): Depend - on scm.h and scmfig.h. - - * scm.h, repl.c: Made ints_disabled VOLATILE. - - * ANNOUNCE: Culled and reorganized URLs. - - * ioext.c (directory-for-each): Require 'filename, not 'glob. - - * Init5e4.scm (slib:features): Added srfi-96. - - * scm.c (init_scm): The streams when the program was dumped need - to be reset at initialization. - - * Makefile (Checklit, Check): Added case-sensitive checks. - - * repl.c (scm_lreadr): Made case-insensitive for character names. - - * keysymdef.scm, x11.scm: X Window System Version 7.1.1 - Release Date: 12 May 2006 - X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 +scm-5f2 news: + +scm-5f2 improves the speed of floating-point I/O. Details at +<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/scm/scm/ChangeLog> + + * scl.c (int2dbl, pmantexp2dbl): Recycle temporary bignums. + (pmantexp2dbl): Handle exponents smaller than -324. + (pmantexp2dbl): Optimized. Added bigrecy(quo). + (pmantexp2dbl): call int2dbl() instead of num2dbl(). + (pdbl2str, pmantexp2dbl): Use powers-of-5 table instead of powers-of-10. + (strrecy, pdbl2str): Recycle temporary string used in number->string + conversion. + (scm_intexpt): Call bigrecy only when #ifdef BIGDIG. + (bigrecy): Added procedure to recycle bignums. + (int2dbl, scm_intexpt, divide, difference, big2str) + (pdbl2str, mantexp2dbl, pmantexp2dbl, int2dbl): Recycle temporary bignums. + (pdbl2str): Replaced call to int2dbl() with scm_intlength(). + * r4rstest.scm (test-bignum): Added tests for GCD and LCM. + * sys.c (sysptob): Added sysflush (for sys_errp). Fixed exit when + verbose > 3. + * subr.c (scm_bitwise_bit_count, scm_logcount, scm_intlength) + (big2inum): Recycle temporary bignums. + * scm.c (process_signals): Reenabled lfflush(sys_errp). + * scm.texi: TeXinfo-5 now disallows text between @defunx lines. + (Internal State): Added "(gc #t)". + +From: Marc Espie + + * time.c: OpenBSD is phasing out old interfaces such as ftime and + the timeb data structure. This change should allow things to work + in a saner way on any system that uses gettimeofday(). -=-=- SCM source is available from: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e5.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5e5.zip - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e5-1.src.rpm - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5e5-1.src.rpm -Also available as i386 binary RPM: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e5-1.i386.rpm - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5e5-1.i386.rpm + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f2.zip> + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f2-1.src.rpm> +Also available as binary RPMs: + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f2-1.i686.rpm> + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f2-1.x86_64.rpm> Also available as i386 MS-Windows installer: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f2-1.exe> SLIB is a portable Scheme library which SCM uses: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1.zip + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b5.zip> Also available as RPM: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b5-1.noarch.rpm> Also available as MS-Windows installer: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b5-1.exe> JACAL is a symbolic math system written in Scheme: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b9.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b9.zip + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c4.zip> Also available as RPM: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b9-1.noarch.rpm - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b9-1.noarch.rpm + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c4-1.noarch.rpm> Also available as MS-Windows installer: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b9-1.exe - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b9-1.exe + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c4-1.exe> WB is a disk based, sorted associative array (B-tree) library for SCM. Using WB, large databases can be created and managed from SCM. - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/wb-2a2.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/wb-2a2.zip - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/wb-2a2-1.src.rpm - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/wb-2a2-1.src.rpm -Also available as i386 binary RPM: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/wb-2a2-1.i386.rpm - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/wb-2a2-1.i386.rpm + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b1.zip> + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b1-1.src.rpm> +Also available as binary RPMs: + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b1-1.i686.rpm> + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b1-1.x86_64.rpm> FreeSnell is a program to compute optical properties of multilayer thin-film coatings: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1b7.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/FreeSnell-1b7.zip + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c1.zip> Also available as MS-Windows installer: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1b7-1.exe - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/FreeSnell-1b7-1.exe + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c1-1.exe> SIMSYNCH is a digital logic simulation system written in SCM. - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/synch-1c3.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/synch-1c3.zip + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/synch-1c5.zip> XSCM is a X windows interface package which works with SCM: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/xscm-2.01.tar.gz - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/xscm-2.01.tar.gz + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/xscm-2.01.tar.gz> TURTLSCM is a turtle graphics package which works with SCM on MS-DOS or X11 machines: - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz> #! implements "#!" (POSIX) shell-scripts for MS-DOS batch files. - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/sharpbang.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/sharpbang.zip - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/#!.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/#!.zip + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/sharpbang.zip> + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/#!.zip> SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor): - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz - -SMG-SCM is an SMG interface package which works with SCM on VMS. - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/smg-scm2a1.zip - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/smg-scm2a1.zip + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz> MacSCM is a Macintosh applications building package which works with SCM (similar to XSCM). - http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/macscm.tar.Z - swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/macscm.tar.Z + <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/macscm.tar.Z> Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SCM has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from: - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.gz + <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo> |