Re: [ANN] r6rs-protobuf 0.8, a pure Scheme Protocol Buffers implementation

[Nala Ginrut]

nice work!

On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 16:01 -0500, Julian Graham wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the 0.8 release of r6rs-protobuf, a pure R6RS
> Scheme implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers data interchange
> framework.  (From Google's protobuf project page [0]:
> "Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an
> efficient yet extensible format.") This implementation provides a
> Scheme code generator and parser for the protocol buffer definition
> language, and maps the protocol buffers feature set onto R6RS
> libraries, records, and enumeration types.
> 
> This release includes a number of fixes from Takashi Kato that address
> issues with the portability of this library to other Scheme platforms,
> such as Vicare Scheme (http://marcomaggi.github.io/vicare.html), along
> with general correctness. In particular:
> 
> * Top-level `option' declarations are now supported (and ignored).
> * Portability issues fixed for code generated by Scheme
> implementations with a `generate-temporaries' implementation that does
> not produce portably serializable identifiers.
> * Runtime portability issues fixed for Scheme implementations on which
> an R6RS record type name does not expand to a reference to its RTD.
> * Block comments in Protocol Buffer definitions are now supported.
> * Fix exports missing from the private runtime library.
> * Fix import collisions between `(rnrs base)' and `(srfi :13)'.
> * Fix broken type predicates for the `uint32' and `uint64' field types.
> 
> The homepage for this project has moved since the last release (and
> the permanent shutdown of Google Code). The new homepage is located
> at: https://gitlab.com/joolean/r6rs-protobuf
> 
> Check the source code out from the GitLab repository or download
> compressed sources from the following Google Drive location:
> 
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B07mS-YQv5YtY09TczFfUG54bFk
> 
> Here are the SHA1 checksums:
>  af220ff4aa25c9e5d25abfd05db1c907f9809c85 r6rs-protobuf-0.8.tar.bz2
>  4ae5828e6df4eea662b17e72ae7415e78acf405b r6rs-protobuf-0.8.tar.gz
>  557f2ba9a474e4fe47215e1fd7765b09af10439f r6rs-protobuf-0.8.zip
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Julian
> 
> 
> [0] - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
>