Important changes excerpted from web pages:
2007/1/17
Gauche 0.8.9: Major maintenance release
+ Bug fixes
+ Miscellaneous improvements:
2006/11/18
Gauche 0.8.8 important patch: There is a bug in main.c that makes gosh
exits silently without reporting errors when a Scheme script raised an
unhandled error. Please apply the patch shown in the following message:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30949517&forum_id=
2043
2006/11/11
Gauche 0.8.8: Major maintenance release
+ Important Changes:
o Exact rational number is supported; now you get 1/3 from (/ 1 3).
To obtain inexact number from division of two exact numbers, you
have to use exact->inexact explicitly. With this change you can get
more exact result, but if your code has relied on the old Gauche
behavior that automatically converts rationals to inexact reals,
your code may run very slowly in this release of Gauche (since
exact rational arithmetic is much slower than flonum arithmetic).
For the smooth transition, a compatibility module compat.norational
is provided, which makes the / operator behaves like before. See
the manual entry for the details.
o The reader is more strict about utf-8 encoding. Consequently, some
source files in other encoding that happened to be accepted by
previous versions of Gauche may no longer work. If you get an
error, either convert the encoding of the source, or use "coding:"
magic comment (See "Multibyte scripts" section of the reference
manual).
o The test-module routine in gauche.test is fixed so that it detects
more references to undefined global variables that have been
overlooked. You may get an error something like "symbols referenced
but not defined: ...". In most cases, they are from typos. See the
manual entry of gauche.test - Unit testing for the details.
o New modules:
# sxml.serializer: Generic routine to convert SXML to other
formats like XML or HTML. Written by Dmitry Lizorkin and ported
to Gauche by Leonardo Boiko.
# util.trie: Implementation of Trie. Originally by OOHASHI
Daichi, and hacked by numerous Gauche hackers.
# util.rbtree: Implementation of Red-Black Tree. Written by Rui
Ueyama.
o A bug in port locking routine, that caused a race condition on
multiprocessor machine, is fixed. As a side effect, port lock
operation became a bit faster.
o C API prospected change: Scm_Eval, Scm_EvalCString, and Scm_Apply
will have different API in the next release. The current API is
kept under a different name, Scm_EvalRec, Scm_EvalCStringRec, and
Scm_ApplyRec. If you are using those functions, please make changes
until the next release.
+ Miscellaneous fixes and improvements:
2006/4/12
Gauche 0.8.7: Major maintenance release
+ Bug fixes:
+ Improvements:
iconv and gdbm. We now patch Makefile.in instead of the configure
script and just pass in thr rpath flags via environment variables.
* Honor PKGINFODIR.
From this release we don't use external Boehm GC library because
gauche needs GC to be built with special compilation options.
New features in 0.8.6:
* New modules:
+ dbi: Database independent access layer, providing unified
access to various relational databases. You need separate
"driver" packages to access the actual RDBMS. There are a
few driver packages available at
http://www.kahua.org/cgi-bin/kahua.fcgi/kahua-web/show/dev/DBI/.
Note: If you have been using the separate dbi module, make
sure you remove it before using the new dbi and dbd
modules. You can find the old dbi.scm under somewhere like
/usr/local/share/gauche/site/lib (the actualy directory
depends on the configuration when you've installed the dbi
module).
+ util.relation: A framework to work with relations (as defined
by Codd). The result of database access via dbi is represened as
a relation.
+ text.sql: SQL parser/constructor. Full features are not
implemented yet, but used in dbi module for prepared queries.
* New SRFIs:
+ SRFI-40 (Library of streams) as util.stream.
+ SRFI-43 (vector library) as srfi-43.
+ SRFI-45 (Primitives for Expressing Iterative Lazy
Algorithms) : built-in.
* New built-in proceduers global-variable-bound? and
glboal-variable-ref. The former supersedes symbol-bound? (
symbol-bound? is now deprecated and will go away in the future
releases. Code that uses symbol-bound? should change it to
global-variable-bound?. ). The latter removes some need of using
eval just to peek the value of the global variable.
* New regexp procedures: regexp-replace*, regexp-replace-all*,
regexp-case-fold?.
* Stack overflow handling is largely improved. You can see better
performance if your script frequently oveflows the stack.
0.8.5 was a maintainance release.
0.8.4:
Gauche 0.8.4:
The compiler and VM have been rewritten. Now Gauche runs faster with
less memory (as fast as 1.9x, or cosumes 0.7x memory, in best cases of
our tests. But your mileage may vary.) The compiler now does simple
closure optimization, so the typical loop-by-local-closure style code
will get the advantage. On the other hand, you won't see much gain in
OO-heavy or library-heavy programs.
Other changes:
* New features:
+ srfi-42 (Eager comprehension) is supported.
+ srfi-55 (require-extension) is supported.
+ A simple sampling profiler is implemented to help tuning
programs. Check out "Profiling and tuning" section of the
reference manual. The profiler may not be available on all
platforms.
+ We provide an experimenal Windows/MinGW binary package for
the convenience. See download page.
2004/12/2
Gauche 0.8.3: Bug fix release
It turned out that 0.8.2's source-code encoding detection feature had a
bug; if you're using Windows-style (CRLF) line-separator, the coding-aware
port repeats one character at the beginning of the second line. It doesn't
do any harm if first few lines of your code are comments, but it's annoying
when you stumbled on it, so I decided to release a fixed version.
This release also includes a couple of improvements: The coding-aware ports
recognizes Emacs-style coding name (e.g. euc-jp-unix) and just ignores the
Emacs-specific suffix (e.g. -unix). And external representations of
f32vector and f64vector are now accurate.
2004/11/29
Gauche 0.8.2: Major revision of infrastructure.
* New features
- A condition (exception) system a la srfi-35 and (part of) srfi-36
is supported. Used with guard (srfi-34), now it is possible to
handle exceptions in more comprehensive way. See the "Exception"
section of the manual, which has been rewritten accordingly.
- Source-code encoding detection. Now Gauche recognizes a special
comment like "coding: utf-8" near the beginning of the source file,
and use appropriate conversion to load the source file. See
"Multibyte Script" section of the manual for the details. This
feature alone can be used independently from loading programs, via
coding-aware ports, so the programs that processes Scheme scripts
can also recognize the special comments.
- Virtual ports are supported. Virtual ports are the ports whose
behavior can be customized in Scheme. See the description of
gauche.vport module in the manual for the details.
* Improvements
- Updated GC to Boehm GC 6.3. It fixes some GC-related problems on
64bit architectures.
- gauche.fcntl: F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN are supported, if the system
provides them.
- gauche.termios: c_cc field of struct termios is now accessible from
Scheme. (Thanks to Kogule Ryo).
- gauche.uvector: Added string->s8vector! and string->s8vector!.
TAGvector-copy!'s API is changed so that it matches with srfi-13's
string-copy! and srfi-43's vector-copy!.
- Port implementation is cleaned up. Now line count is available not
only for file ports but any ports (as far as it's doing character I
/O). byte-ready? is added for binary I/O polling.
- text.csv: quote character is customizable.
* Bug fixes
- INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: The previous version's rfc.mime's API was
broken. It couldn't handle MIME part whose message was non-encoded
binary. Now MIME part stream parser is re-implemented using virtual
ports, and the reader argument passed to the MIME part handler is
dropped. www.cgi is also affected if you're using customized
handler for file uploads. See the reference manual for the new API.
- SONAME of the library is now set, if the platform supports it.
- gauche.array: Some functions were not exported, although they were
mentioned in the manual.
- gauche.charconv: Fixed a bug in converting 2nd plane of JIS.
- gauche.regexp: regexp-replace-all looped infinitely for some
patterns. Now it raises an error.
- dbm.fsdbm: It couldn't store binary data.
- rfc.822: rfc822-parse-date returned wrong month number (off by
one).
- util.match: Fixed a bug in quasipattern. The description of
quasipatterns in the reference manual is also revised to explain it
better.
- srfi-19: date->julian-day didn't recognize tz-offset.
- Some bugs in numeric code are fixed.
- let-args had a bug in parameter handling of 'else' clause.
- directory-list: when :filter-add-path? is true, there was a bug
that "." and ".." were included in the results even :children?
argument was true.
- There was a bug that causes an infinite loop during class
redefinition.
- let-keywords*: fixed a bug that corrupts expansion when used in
r5rs macro.
* C API Change
- Class initialization API is overhauled. Scm_InitBuiltinClass is
obsoleted; use Scm_InitStaticClass instead.
- Port structure is changed quite a bit.
- Functions to convert Scheme integers to C integers are revised, to
handle out-of-range error in more flexible way.
- API of Scm_Load, Scm_LoadFromPort and related functions are changed
to support more flags.
Gauche-0.8.1 is a maintainance release of Gauche-0.8.
Gauche-0.8 release announce is cited here:
* *New Features*
o Auxiliary scripts: Gauche now installs a few scripts
that help to build and install extension packages. The
gauche-package script handles download, unpacking,
configuration, building and installation in one command
invocation. See the description of "Using extension
packages" section of the manual. (NB: this feature is
still new and may have problems, but hey, let's give a
try.) A couple of auxiliary scripts, gauche-cesconv and
gauche-install can be called from Makefile. They don't
have documentation yet, but try --help option for these
scripts.
o Module util.match: Andrew Wright's match macro is
bundled. It is modified to handle Gauche's object system.
* *Improvements*
o A couple of performance tuning were done for I/O and
loading Scheme files.
o Now you can subclass <error> class as well as
<exception> class to define your own error type. A new
built-in macro guard, which is SRFI-34 compliant, can be
used to handle errors selectively. Eventually the errors
from built-in procedures will have more structured
exception hierarchy.
o New built-in system procedures: sys-lchown, sys-realpath.
o Built-in sort routines now have stable versions,
stable-sort and stable-sort!.
o New built-in macro: let/cc.
o New built-in keyword procedures: delete-keyword, delete-keyword!.
o New built-in regexp procedure: rxmatch-num-matches.
o Module file.util: new procedures: file-is-symlink?,
file->string, file->string-list, file->list, file->sexp-list.
o Module gauche.net: documented the previously
experimental procedures: socket-send, socket-sendto,
socket-recv, socket-recvfrom, socket-getpeername,
socket-getsockname. Now these are official procedures.
o Module gauche.process: process-command wasn't exported,
even though it was documented.
o Module gauche.test: you can control whether the error in
the test procedure is reported or not by an envioronment
variable GAUCHE_TEST_REPORT_ERROR and a global variable
*test-report-error*. Useful to find a problem during testing.
o Module www.cgi: new procedure cgi-get-metavariables;
allows the user routine to take metavariables via
cgi-metavariables parameter, so that cgi scripts can be
easily modularized.
o Module gauche.parseopt: support of "optional
option-argument" is added.
o Module gauche.array: homogeneous numeric array types are added.
o Module text.html-lite: added frame-related tags.
* *Bug Fixes*
[snip]
Many changes were made from previous packaged version, 0.6.3; Lots of
improvements and bug fixes, including security ones. Please take a look
at its WWW page for more detailes.
http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/
pkgsrc changes:
- support buildlink2. buildlink3.mk is also added but not tested since
I have not moved to buildlink3 environment yet.
- this package now uses libgcudevel/boehm-gc instead of self contained,
slightly modified one. It seems that this package runs under m68k.
0.5 -> 0.5.1
* Ported to Windows/Cygwin, HP-UX11.0 and FreeBSD 2.2
* Incompatible fix to conform final SRFI-22
* Various bug fixes
Gauche-gl is updated to 0.1.2 to follow Gauche 0.5.1 changes.
SXML-gauche-0.9, Oleg Kiselyov's XML tool suite, is available.
0.5.1 -> 0.5.2
* Feature addition : String interpolation
* Bugfixes
* More POSIX API
* Manpages
* RPM packages for Linux/i386
0.5.2 -> 0.5.3
There're not many visible changes in this release
except a few bug fixes.
0.5.3 -> 0.5.4
* Buffered port routine is rewritten to use Gauche's own
buffering code instead of stdio.
* Lots of high-level file/directory utility functions are added as
file.util module.
* Added weak vector. See "Weak pointer" section of the reference manual.
* Added parameters. See gauche.parameter section of the reference manual.
* Added pseudo tty interface, sys-openpty and sys-forkpty. See
"Termios" section of the reference manual.
* Added define-values.
* Added port?.
* System objects, such as <sys-stat>, <sys-group> and <sys-passwd>,
are integrated to the object system. Information of these objects
can now be accessed via slots, instead of individual procedures.
* Improved dynamic string handling performance.
* Fixed a nasty bug in metaobject protocol handling code
that corrupted memory.
* Fixed a compiler bug that prevented proper tail recursion in some cases.
