changes:
* NetBSD patches integrated
* improvements to the module system
* new interfaces
basically numerous changes, see plt/notes/mzscheme in the source directory
Based on package submitted by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
in PR pkg/16301.
OTcl, short for MIT Object Tcl, is an extension to Tcl/Tk for
object-oriented programming. It shouldn't be confused with the IXI
Object Tcl extension by Dean Sheenan.
Some of OTcl's features as compared to alternatives are:
* designed to be dynamically extensible, like Tcl, from the ground
up
* builds on Tcl syntax and concepts rather than importing another
language
* compact yet powerful object programming system (draws on CLOS,
Smalltalk, and Self)
* fairly portable implementation (2000 lines of C, without core
hacks)
* installation fix: (ice-9 and-let*) has been renamed to (ice-9 and-let-star)
* build fix: net_db.c `inet_aton' declaration now properly conditionalized
* bugfix: `expt' now handles negative exponents correctly
* installation fix: some programs are no longer installed
* guile-snarf usage now internalizes output-file creation/deletion
* installation fix: libltdl now "installable" instead of "convenience"
* library versioning now more disciplined
* "make check" now works
* provisional documentation available
* interface summarization available
buildlink2.mk files back into the main trunk. This provides sufficient
buildlink2 infrastructure to start merging other packages from the
buildlink2 branch that have already been converted to use the buildlink2
framework.
Changes since version 1.06 include:
* Lots of bugfixes.
* The Hat tracing system is now entirely separate from the nhc98 compiler
(and is thus not included in the package)
(ephaeton at gmx dot net) in PR pkg/18023. Besten Dank!
Changes from 3.04 to 3.05 (abbreviated list, full list available at
http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200207/msg00558.html):
Language features:
- Support for polymorphic methods and record fields.
- Allows _ separators in integer and float literals, e.g. 1_000_000.
Type-checker:
- Fixed subtle typing bug with higher-order functors.
- Fixed several complexity problems;
- Fixed various bugs with objects and polymorphic variants.
Bytecode compiler:
- Fixed issue with ocamlc.opt and dynamic linking.
Native-code compiler:
- Fixed GC bug related to constant constructors of polymorphic variant types.
- Fixed compilation bug for top-level "include" statements.
Toplevel interactive system:
- ocamlmktop: minimized possibility of name clashes with user-provided modules.
Run-time system:
- Better support for lazy data in the garbage collector.
- Support for float formats that are neither big-endian nor little-endian
- Fixed bug in callback*_exn functions in the exception-catching case.
Standard library:
- Protect against integer overflow in sub-string and sub-array bound checks.
- New module Complex implementing arithmetic over complex numbers.
- New module Scanf implementing format-based scanning a la scanf() in C.
- various fixes and enhancements to existing modules
Tools:
- ocamldoc part of distribution
- Debugger: now supports the option -I +dir.
- ocamllex: supports the same identifiers as ocamlc;
Changes from 3.05 to 3.06:
Type-checking:
- Apply value restriction to polymorphic record fields.
Run-time system:
- Fixed GC bug affecting lazy values.
Both compilers:
- Added option "-version" to print just the version number.
- Fixed wrong dependencies in .cmi generated with the -pack option.
Native-code compiler:
- Fixed wrong return value for inline bigarray assignments.
Libraries:
- Unix.getsockopt: make sure result is a valid boolean.
Tools:
- ocamlbrowser: improved error reporting;
CHICKEN is a Scheme-to-C compiler supporting most of the language
features as defined in the Revised^5 Report on Scheme. CHICKEN
generates quite portable C code, and files compiled by it (including
itself) should work without any changes on most platforms.
The whole package is distributed under a BSD license and as such free
to use and modify as long as you adhere to its terms (see the manual).
Linkage to C modules and C-library functions is straightforward, so
it's easy to access C from Scheme. Compiled code can be embedded into
existing C programs without problems. The generated code supports
full tail-recursion, first-class continuations, multiple values and
dynamic-wind.
branch. Includes fixes for sparc, alpha, and others.
Should help in keeping pkgsrc running on 1.5.* systems.
The patches which mirror those in the main netbsd source tree have
been all put into a single distribution patch file. This makes
it much easier to maintain and easier to easily see which patches
are specific to pkgsrc.
JAVA situation. Also adjust MASTER_SITES and HOMEPAGE and add a license
("single-user-license"), as the software has specific restrictions on the
usage.
This fixes the problem pointed out during Huberts most recent bulk-build.
