[Slib-discuss] Scheme Library release slib-3b2 available

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This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib-3b2.

SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility
functions for all standard Scheme implementations.

SLIB supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK 3.0, Gambit 4.0, Guile, JScheme,
MacScheme, MITScheme, PLT Scheme (DrScheme and MzScheme), Pocket
Scheme, RScheme, scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCM Mac, scsh, SISC, Stk,
T3.1, umb-scheme, and VSCM.

SLIB is free software.  It has a Permissive-Non-Warranty license
(http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB_COPYING.txt).

Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from
SLIB's home page:

             http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB.html

Links to distributions of SLIB and related softwares are at the end of
this message.

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slib-3b2 news:

 From Clemens Fischer

  * html4each.scm (htm-fields): Value always is string.

 From Sarah Jaffer

  * prec.scm: Rewrote to make thread-safe; fluid-let variables
  replaced with `dyn' argument to most procedures.

 From Andrea Girotto

  * kawa.init (scheme-implementation-version): Update for Kawa-1.9.3.

 From Adam Sampson

  * Makefile (install): Fixed DESTDIR use.

 From Aubrey Jaffer

  * prec.scm (prec:parse): Removed input newline flushing.
  Added initial-column argument.

  * require.scm (report:print): Report locations if given filename
  argument.

  * html4each.scm (htm-fields): Treat DTDs like comments.  Fixed
  handling of closing tags.  Corrected documentation.

  * qp.scm (qp): Don't add newlines when *qp-width* is #f.
  * trace.scm (debug:trace-procedure): Increased indent increment to
  2; wrap at column 31 so that depths 16 to 31 are offset.

  * dynamic.scm (dynamic-environment-rtd, dynamic-rtd):
  * priorque.scm (make-heap):
  * queue.scm (make-queue):
  * synclo.scm (make-reserved-name-item):
  * values.scm (values): In SISC (1.16.6), the second argument to
  'record-constructor' is not optional.  Second arguments added.
  * sisc.init (syncase:eval, syncase:load): Added.

  * mitscheme.init(system): Now called run-shell-command.
  (print-call-stack): Added dummy definition for trace.

  * guile.init (list->array): Redefine to take 3 arguments.
  (vector->array, array->vector): Define if missing.
  (implementation-vicinity): Thomas Bushnell points out
  that %site-dir mashes all slibcat for all versions together.
  %library-dir (since Guile-1.6) is the versioned directory.
  (library-vicinity): Last resort changed to "/usr/share/slib/".

  * slib.texi (Catalog Creation): Added mention of implcat.
  (Compiled and Implementation-Specific Features): Added section.
  (System Interface): The procedure `system' is Posix.
  (Input/Output): Fixed typo in file-position.
  (System): Macro:load doesn't affect current-error-port.
  * fdl.texi: Updated to Version 1.3.

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SLIB is available from:
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b2.zip
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b2-1.noarch.rpm
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b2-1.exe

SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz

SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB:
 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/schelog/schelog.html

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SLIB
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo