This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib-3b1. SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. SLIB supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK 3.0, GAMBIT 3.0, Guile, JScheme, MacScheme, MITScheme, PLT Scheme (DrScheme and MzScheme), Pocket Scheme, RScheme, scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCM Mac, scsh, SISC, Stk, T3.1, umb-scheme, and VSCM. SLIB is free software. It has a Permissive-Non-Warranty license (http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB_COPYING.txt). Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from SLIB's home page: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html Links to distributions of SLIB and related softwares are at the end of this message. -=-=- slib-3b1 news: * Larceny (Scheme) is supported. From Ivan Shmakov: * scheme48.init (slib:os-strings): Fixed init for 1.7 (and 1.3). (defmacro:eval, defmacro:load): Fixed. From Rob Browning: * guile.init (implementation-vicinity): Just (%site-dir). (file-position, gentemp): module-replace! (library-vicinity): Try (%search-load-path "slib/guile.init"). From Aubrey Jaffer: * Logo and icon. * Added program-arguments to System-Interface section in Manual. * *.init: implementation-vicinity can be overridden by implementation-specific environment variable: MITSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH VSCM_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH STK_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH RSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH JSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH GAMBIT_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH ELK_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH CHEZ_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH BIGLOO_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH GUILE_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH MZSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH * FAQ, slib.spec, Makefile: Always put - between slib and version. * byte.scm: Rewritten based on uniform arrays. * random.scm (random): Err when passed negative number. * srfi-1.scm (lset<=): Fixed to use first argument. * transact.scm (word:lock!): Don't try to read file until after call-with-open-ports returns. (describe-file-lock): Handle case when file isn't locked. (windows:user-email-address): Much simplified; updated to Windows-XP from Windows-95. (describe-file-lock): Added diagnostic to current-error-port. * rdms.scm (open-table): Return #f for failure per documentation. * solid.scm (light:point, light:spot): Fixed. * prec.scm (prec:parse-delimited): First (recursive) clause was missing argument. * determ.scm (matrix:inverse, matrix->lists): Corrected documentation. * clrnamdb.scm, resenecolours.txt: Updated to Resene-2007. * slib.texi (Spectra): Clarified action of features cie1964, cie1931, and ciexyz. * glob.scm, slib.texi: Removed glob as alias for filename. * dirs.scm: Require 'filename instead of 'glob. * require.scm: Condition SRFI scan on srfi-0. * mklibcat.scm: Feature-name is srfi-0 (was srfi). * mbe.scm (macro:eval): defmacro:eval. (macro:load): defmacro:load. * defmacex.scm (defmacro:expand*): Use macroexpand instead of macroexpand-1 in preparation for macroexpand-1 deprecation. * slib.nsi: Added *.init files. * README (Implementation-specific Instructions): Updated. * scheme48.init (char-code-limit): 128; does ascii conversions. (1+, -1+): Removed; choked Scheme48-1.7. Added SRFIs as found in Scheme-48 release-notes. (scheme-implementation-version): Lose text after number. (program-arguments): Removed dummy definition. * scsh.init (program-arguments): Defined to command-line per http://practical-scheme.net/wiliki/schemexref.cgi?command-line (library-vicinity, implementation-vicinity): Find path once. * scheme2c.init, kawa.init, umbscheme.init (implementation-vicinity): find path once. * vscm.init (slib:features): Added macro. * RScheme.init (slib:features): Added defmacro. * mzscheme.init (slib:features): Added syntax-case. * guile.init, sisc.init (macro:load): slib:load-source. * umbscheme.init, pscheme.init (defmacro:eval, defmacro:load): Simplified. * kawa.init, mitscheme.init, bigloo.init, gambit.init, jscheme.init: (re)moved some comments. * Template.scm, t3.init, STk.init, macscheme.init, scheme2c.init, scsh.init, chez.init, elk.init (slib:features): Added defmacro. * guile.init ((ice-9 slib)): "ice-9/slib.scm" doesn't become valid (and shorter) until version guile-1.8.3. * mzscheme.init: Renamed from DrScheme.init. (slib:features): Added format. (slib:load-compiled): Handle SRFI requires. * Makefile (catalogs): Copy "mkpltcat.scm" to "mkimpcat.scm" in mzscheme's implementation-vicinity. (mkfiles): Added "mkpltcat.scm". * mkpltcat.scm: "mkimpcat.scm" for mzscheme which adds all supported SRFIs to the catalog. * Makefile (ciefiles): Separated from Scheme sourcefiles. (test): Unmaintained target removed. -=-=- SLIB is available from: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1.zip http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe 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 SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/schelog/schelog.html Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SLIB has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.gz