[Slib-discuss] Scheme Library release slib-3b3

[Aubrey Jaffer]

This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib-3b3.

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, Pocket Scheme, RScheme, S7, 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

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

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slib-3b3 news:

  * Supports GNU configure.
  * Makefile: Reorganized per <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/>.
  * (Guile 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.7, and 2?): Supported.
  * s7.init: Added init file for S7, part of the Snd sound-editor.
  * Makefile (allfiles): Added "version.txi".
  * Corrected several color problems.
  * qp.scm (qp): Don't truncate symbols when printing.
  * transact.scm (word:lock!): Truncate email components so MS-Word
    style ~$ckfile fits in 162.B.
  * dirs.scm (directory*-for-each): Added.
  * srfi-39.scm (make-parameter, parameterize): Added.
  * grapheps.ps (bargraph, impulse): Fixed for ranges not containing 0.

Details at
<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/slib/slib/ChangeLog>

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SLIB is available from:
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3.zip
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm
 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3-1.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