pkgsrc changes:
- Remove clx option. Bundled clx is no longer provided by ecl
Changes:
16.1.3
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** Announcement
Dear Community,
After almost a year of development we are proud to present a new release of
ECL tagged with version =16.1.3=. All changes are backward compatible
fixing bugs and other issues, implementing new interfaces and cleaning up
the code base.
ECL manual has been updated in a few places. Work on a new documentation is
still pending. It is still incomplete, but you may check see it here:
https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/static/ecldoc/.
Before this release we have performed extensive tests on various platforms
(Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSX, Windows MSVC, Windows MinGW, Windows
Cygwin, Android and Haiku). For details please consult
https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/issues/307. Extra attention
has been paid to Windows testing to improve that platform support.
Best regards,
ECL Development Team
** API changes
- Added better interface for package-locks.
Introduced functions:
=ext:package-locked-p package=
=ext:lock-package package=
=ext:unlock-package package=
=ext:without-package-locks=
=ext:with-unlocked-package=
To use these functions user has to require the module
#+BEGIN_SRC lisp
(require '#:package-locks)
#+END_SRC
=defpackage= accepts new option =lock= to allow locking package on
creation:
#+BEGIN_SRC lisp
(defpackage foo (:lock t))
#+END_SRC
- =mp:holding-lock-p=: introduce new function for multiprocessing. Function
verifies if lock is hold by the thread which calls the function. Usage:
=(mp:holding-lock-p my-lock)=.
- =make-random-state=: fix problem with simple-vectors. The correct
initialization types for =make-random-state= are: =(OR RANDOM-STATE
FIXNUM (MEMBER T NIL))=.
Initializing a random state with an appropriate array (element type and
arity dependent on platform) is also possible.
- =ext:random-state-array=: new extension for random-states. Usage:
=(ext:random-state-array random-state)=.
- =ext:terminate-process=: new extension for external processes. Usage:
=(ext:terminate-process process)= with a second, optional boolean
argument whenever termination should be forced or not.
** Enhancements
- Implemented =CDR-7=.
https://common-lisp.net/project/cdr/document/7/index.html
- implemented CDRs: =CDR-1=, =CDR-5=, =CDR-14=. Both =CDR-1= and =CDR-5=
were already implemented, CDR-14 made us to list them in =*features*=
(https://common-lisp.net/project/cdr/document/14/index.html).
- if ECL is build with =--with-cxx= option, =:CXX-CORE= is present in
=*features*=.
- deprecated configure option =--with-local-gmp= has been removed - use
=--enable-gmp= (defaults to auto).
- configure options has been revised.
- ASDF has been upgraded to version 3.1.7.26 (with a few patches scheduled
for 3.2.0).
- bundled CLX has been purged. Lately I've fixed ECL support on portable
CLX maintained by sharplispers on https://github.com/sharplispers/clx
(available via QuickLisp).
- initial port for the Haiku platform. The port is done by Kacper Kasper's
work, one of Haiku developers. Threads are not supported yet.
- refactored ECL internal tests framework. Tests in =src/tests= are now
asdf-loadable (with =load-source-op=) and divided into test suites. =make
check= target runs all regression and feature tests which aren't supposed
to fail.
- removed 15000 lines of obsolete code. Files not included in the
buildsystem but lingering in the codebase or options failing to
build. All info is added in the new documentation in the section "Removed
interfaces".
- improved man page and help output. Man page now contains up-to-date list
of flags, as well as explanation of flag's behavior.
- deprecated long flags with one dash, added two-dash version. Flags that
aren't one-character, but start with one dash (e.g. =-eval=) are now
deprecated; long version =--eval= was added instead.
- indented C/C++ code to follow emacs's gnu C style. This is a first step
towards coding standards in the documentation. Additionally all in the
src/c/ directory are listed in the appropraite documentation section
(new-doc).
- refactored =list_current_directory in unixfsys.d=. Function was
obfuscated with ifdefs with non-even pairs of =#\{= and =#\}=.
** Issues fixed
- ECL signals floating point exceptions in top-level console.
- =mp:rwlock= is treated as built-in class (previously process crashed if
=class-of= was called on such object).
- ECL builds now succesfully with =--with-ieee-fp=no= option.
- =ext:file-stream-fd=: doesn't cause an internal-error if called with
something not being a =file-stream= (signals a =SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR=
condtition).
- =stable-sort=: bugfix and improvement in speed. Adapted from SBCL by
Diogo Franco.
- typep: accept =*= type specifier as abbreviation of =T= as described in
=2.4.3 Type Specifiers= of the specification.
- MOP: fix problemes when redefining non-standard and anonymous
classes. Bugs identified and fixed by Pascal Costanza.
- =getcwd=: fix issue with too long pathname. This fixes the regression,
which crashed ECL at start when pathname exceeded 128 characters limit.
- =make-random-state=: fix a problem with simple-vectors. Until now =#$=
reader macro accepted simple vectors as an argument, what lead to bugs if
vector didn't match specific requirements like the element type or the
arity. Now we sanitize this.
- =make-load-form=: provide implementation for random-state objects.
- thread fix on msvc: on windows importing thread was closing the thread
handler so the thread wakeup wasn't working because the handler is not
more valid.
- import thread wasn't set upping a proper environment: on some case the
thread was mistakenly thinking that the thread was already registered.
- =ECL_HANDLER_CASE= and =ECL_RESTART_CASE= didn't work as expected. Bug
identified and fixed by Vadim Penzin.
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