Re: guile-sdl 0.2.0 available

[Mike Gran]

You often post news of these updates, and yet you rarely think to
include information about what these programs actually are.


--- Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> NEWS excerpt below.  tarball and friends in dir:
> 
>   http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/guile-sdl/
> 
> (if it's not there yet, just wait an hour or so -- i'm posting this a
> bit early because it's nap time now.)
> 
> note that there are two top-level entries in the NEWS excerpt, the
> latter a short blurb about maintainership transfer (thanks Alex
> Shinn!).
> also, audio procs have not been tested because i don't have that kind
> of
> hardware in my computer.  however, other things seem to work ok.  bug
> reports and other feedback welcome (see TODO if you want to help).
> 
> thi
> 
> _______________________________________________
> - guile-sdl 0.2.0 (released 2003-11-21)
> 
>   - installation change: scheme wrappers for most modules eliminated
> 
>         Previously, the modules (sdl mixer), (sdl ttf) and (sdl gfx)
>         were implemented as a combination of a small piece of Scheme
>         code that dlopened a libtool-created shared object library in
>         ${libdir}.  Since Guile can recognize certain shared object
>         libraries as modules and load them directly, these Scheme
> code
>         wrappers are not required and thus are now no longer
> distributed.
>         Instead, "make install" places the shared object libraries
> for
>         these modules and their support files in directory:
> 
>                 ${GUILE_LIBSITE}/sdl/
> 
>         The value of ${GUILE_LIBSITE} is determined by the
> `configure'
>         script.  Also installed in this directory is the compiled
> module
>         (sdl sdl-sup), an internal module used by all the user-facing
>         modules.  Related to these changes, if the program
> "guile-tools
>         make-module-catalog" is available, installation invokes it
> for
>         the ${GUILE_LIBSITE} directory for the compiled modules, and
>         ${GUILE_SITE} for module (sdl sdl).  See README for more
> info.
> 
>   - upgrade facility: make {check,clean}-000-libdir
> 
>         See README section "Upgrading Tips" for info on how to handle
>         old ${libdir}/libguileSDL* files (from guile-sdl-0.1.x).
> 
>   - "sdl-" prefix dropped
> 
>         Procedure names no longer begin with "sdl-".  You can use the
>         #:renamer clause (in `use-modules' and `define-module' forms)
>         to add this back, or possibly choose another prefix.  In this
>         distribution, the tests, examples and documentation use
> "SDL:".
> 
>   - "make check" now respects INTERACTIVE env var
> 
>         Normally "make check" skips tests that require human
>         interaction.  You can do "make check INTERACTIVE=1" to
>         enable running those tests as well.
> 
> 
> - maintainership transfer: ttn
> 
>         A big thanks goes to Alex Shinn, Vikram Subramanian, and Joel
>         Smith, the original authors of the disparate packages that
> all
>         came together as guile-sdl in mid-to-late 2001, for (1)
> writing
>         the code; (2) pooling their efforts; and (3) passing it on.
> 
> 
> [excerpt ends here]
> 
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