[Chicken-announce] [ANN] CHICKEN 5.3.0 release candidate 3 available

[Peter Bex]

Hello all,

The third release candidate for CHICKEN 5.3.0 is now available for
download:

  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2021/09/20/chicken-5.3.0rc3.tar.gz

The sha256sum of that tarball is:

  298ad5eab42ea56c3cc3fcc7343a510e0c41fc13d3b5bdd2f4b1a636458f8f67

The list of changes since 5.2.0 and 5.3.0rc3 is available here:

  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2021/09/20/NEWS

This release candidate makes it possible to build with tcc again
and fixes two issues on Windows: egg installation scripts were mixing
uses of msys tools and Windows cmd directives and the test suite has
some failures on Windows.

Please give this new release candidate a try and report your findings
to the mailing list.  Here's a suggested test procedure:

  $ make PREFIX=<directory> install check
  $ <directory>/bin/chicken-install pastiche

If you can, please let us know the following information about the
environment on which you test the RC:

  Operating system: (e.g., FreeBSD 12.0, Debian 9, Windows 10 mingw-msys under 
mingw32)
  Hardware platform: (e.g., x86, x86-64, PPC)
  C Compiler: (e.g., GCC 6.4.0, clang 5.0.0)
  Installation works?: yes or no
  Tests work?: yes or no
  Installation of eggs works?: yes or no

Thanks in advance!

The CHICKEN Team

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