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Package changes: Put documentation in the canonical pkgsrc directories. Add test target support. Gmake is not needed anymore. Things changed in release 1.0: - Many bugfixes - Declaration specifier `compress-literals' and compiler-option `-compress-literals N' - Chicken now compiles on OpenBSD [Thanks to Steve Elkins] - `library' unit: (chicken-version) - A new version of the portable syntax-case macro system is now used, which provides `identifier-syntax', `fluid-let-syntax' and `datum->syntax-object', allows low-level macros (`define-macro') in combination with hygienic macros and supports the module system used in Chez Scheme (but does not handle separate compilation) - The syntax `(define-syntax (name var) ...)' is allowed - Chicken supports now SRFI-37 officially (A new library unit named `srfi-37' has been added) - The old module system has been removed. It was rather hackishly implemented and didn't integrate well with the highlevel macro system - The scheduler and the threading system have been massively overhauled and scale a little better - The pattern-matcher is now available in combination with the highlevel macro system, enter `(include "match")' or `(require-for-syntax 'match)' to make it available - SRFI-22 script interpreters `scheme-chicken' and `scheme-chicken-hygienic' have been added - Compiled `#!' scheme scripts with an invocation line of `csi -script' or `scheme-chicken'/`scheme-chicken-hygienic' automagically link with all libraries which would normally be available under the interpreter. - Type-checks of fixed size objects are slightly more efficient - Extension-libraries can now be stored alternatively in a directory given by the CHICKEN_REGISTRY environment variable or in `$HOME/.chicken-registry' - The new library unit `tcp' provides a PLTish socket interface, `tcp-accept' and I/O from socket ports do not block other running threads - The new compiler/interpreter option `-strict-letrec' enables a fully R5RS compliant expansion of `letrec' - Chicken should now pass all tests of Scott G. Millers `r5rs_pitfalls.scm' - Jonah Beckford ported SWIG (<http://www.swig.org>) to Chicken! Check out a preliminary version at <http://beckford.netfirms.com/hobbies/swig/> - On Windows (Cygwin, Mingw32 and MSVC), CHICKEN now supports shared libraries and dynamic loading. Many thanks to Jonah Beckford for his tremendous work! Things changed in release 0.1082: - Bugfixes. - Support for SRFI's 26 (cut) and 30 (block comments). - Peter Keller translated the manual into LaTeX. Pdf and html documentation is available. - Peter Keller has contributed a comprehensive testing framework (fully R5RS compliant). - Declaration specifiers: export compile-time-macros-only - Library unit `extras': hash-table-remove! ->string - Library unit `posix': sleep - Library unit `lolevel': pointer-offset pointer-u8-ref pointer-u8-set! pointer-s8-ref pointer-s8-set! pointer-u16-ref pointer-u16-set! pointer-s16-ref pointer-s16-set! pointer-u32-ref pointer-u32-set! pointer-s32-ref pointer-s32-set! pointer-f32-ref pointer-f32-set! pointer-f64-ref pointer-f64-set! - Dynamic loading is now supported on older HP-UX systems that provide `shl_load()' instead of `dlopen()' (Thanks to Tony Garnock-Jones) - Error messages have been (slightly) improved. - A system for simplified packaging, building and installation of extension-libraries (based on shared libraries) is now provided. - New data type `locatives' allow to create pointers into arbitrary sections of various kinds of Scheme data objects. - So called `locations' simplify passing pointers to local or global Scheme variables to foreign procedures. - FFI-generated code is a little bit more compact and efficient. - Chicken supports alternative keyword syntaxes (CL/DSSSL) via the compiler/interpreter option `-keyword-style' and the parameter `keyword-style' - `define-record-printer' now handles SRFI-9 record types. - The regex-libraries now allow the creation of precompiled regular expressions (new procedures `regexp' and `regexp?'). |
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