SNAPSHOTS

   1 FTP Snapshots ========================================================
   2
   3 Each night, we make the current Guile sources available via anonymous
   4 FTP.  Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly
   5 experimental; they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even
   6 compile on some systems.  They may contain interfaces which will
   7 change.  They will usually not be of sufficient quality for use by
   8 people not comfortable hacking the innards of Guile.  Caveat!
   9
  10 However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons.  We'd like
  11 to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile.  People
  12 willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access
  13 to new, experimental features.  Patches submitted relative to recent
  14 snapshots will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the
  15 patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with.
  16 And it allows us to start testing features earlier.
  17
  18 Nightly snapshots of the Guile development sources are available via
  19 anonymous FTP from ftp.red-bean.com, as
  20 /pub/guile/snapshots/guile-core-snap.tar.gz.
  21
  22 Via the web, that's:
  23     ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/snapshots/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
  24 For getit, that's:
  25     ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/snapshots/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
  26
  27 The snapshot FTP site is mirrored at the following location:
  28   Japan:                ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/lang/scheme/guile
  29
  30
  31 To build the snapshot, you will need to have autoconf, automake, and
  32 libtool installed on your system; the recommended versions are listed
  33 in README.
  34
  35 After you have unpacked the tar file, run the command `./autogen.sh'.
  36 This builds the configure script, Makefile.in, and other derived files
  37 used by the build system.