Re: [ANN] guile-curl 0.8 released

[Aleix Conchillo Flaqué]

Great! This new version works fine and is now available in homebrew guile :-).

One minor thing is that I was using brew defaults and I think they add
more make jobs (i.e. -jN where N > 1). This meant that curl.scm was
built before the extension and therefore it failed. To solve it I just
forced it to "make -j1", which is totally fine since there are just a
few files.

Thanks!

Aleix

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:33 PM Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am pleased to announce the release of guile-curl 0.8.  This is a
> library for fetching files by URL from the internet in the GNU Guile
> dialect of the Scheme programming language.  It wraps functionality
> provided by the libcurl library.  It supports many protocols, such as
> https, ftp, tftp, gopher, and smtp, and it has many options for
> proxies.
>
> In the previous release, Aleix and Ricardo reported that it failed to
> build or pass its test suite.  I couldn't reproduce those problems on
> my boxes, but, hopefully this hack improves the situation.
>
> The development tree is at
>   https://github.com/spk121/guile-curl
>
> For a source archive from a javascript-free location, there is
>   http://lonelycactus.com/tarball/guile_curl-0.8.tar.gz
> The md5 sum is at
>   http://lonelycactus.com/tarball/guile_curl-0.8.tar.gz.md5
> and is
>   01eda6d02f8ac1568db3a1a0ef3781a5  guile_curl-0.8.tar.gz
>
> Alternately, you can find it under the Github release page.  The
> versions found here are unbootstrapped.  They are, however, https.
>   https://github.com/spk121/guile-curl/releases
>
> There is a webpage -- in need of updating -- at
>   http://www.lonelycactus.com/guile-curl.html
>
> For Release 0.8 - Jan 11, 2021
>
>     - Eliminate all traces of gnulib
>     - Use srfi-64 for test scripts
>     - Avoid recursive automake
>     - Simplify build somewhat
>     - When CURL constants and enums are not present, the Guile versions
>       will be #f, instead of undefined
>     - Use pkg-config instead of curl-config to gather information
>       about the libcurl install
>     - Remove ChangeLog
>
> There is no mailing list for this project.  Feel free to contact
> me directly if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Gran
>
>
>