system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting
for."
+Before releasing the next version of libguile which is not binary compatible
+with the one released with 1.4:
+- remove struct members system_transformer and top_level_lookup_closure_var
+ from struct scm_root_state in root.h.
+
+After signal handling and threading have been fixed:
+- remove the code corresponding to GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK and the corresponding
+ GUILE_OLD_ASYNC_CLICK macro.
+
In release 1.5:
- remove deprecated macros: SCM_INPORTP, SCM_OUTPORTP, SCM_CRDY, SCM_ICHRP,
SCM_ICHR, SCM_MAKICHR, SCM_SETJMPBUF, SCM_NSTRINGP, SCM_NRWSTRINGP,
- remove scm_tag
- remove code related to the name property of hooks. Also, check init.c,
since the dependency between hooks and objprop will then be eliminated.
-Dirk:FIXME:: look into deprecated things in numbers.h and tags.h, don't forget
-to update NEWS accordingly.
+- remove deprecated function scm_list_star/list* (use SRFI-1 compliant
+ scm_cons_star/cons* instead.)
+- remove scm_tc16_flo, scm_tc_flo (guile always uses doubles to represent
+ inexact real numbers)
+- remove scm_tc_dblr (replaced by scm_tc16_real)
+- remove scm_tc_dblc (replaced by scm_tc16_complex)
+- remove deprecated types, functions and macros from numbers.h: scm_dblproc,
+ SCM_UNEGFIXABLE, SCM_FLOBUFLEN, SCM_INEXP, SCM_CPLXP, SCM_REAL, SCM_IMAG,
+ SCM_REALPART, scm_makdbl, SCM_SINGP, SCM_NUM2DBL, SCM_NO_BIGDIG
+
+In release 1.6:
+- remove deprecated macros: SCM_OUTOFRANGE, SCM_NALLOC, SCM_HUP_SIGNAL,
+ SCM_INT_SIGNAL, SCM_FPE_SIGNAL, SCM_BUS_SIGNAL, SCM_SEGV_SIGNAL,
+ SCM_ALRM_SIGNAL, SCM_GC_SIGNAL, SCM_TICK_SIGNAL, SCM_SIG_ORD,
+ SCM_ORD_SIG, SCM_NUM_SIGS
+- remove function scm_call_catching_errors
+ (replaced by catch functions from throw.[ch])
+
Modules sort.c and random.c should be factored out into separate
modules (but still be distributed with guile-core) when we get a new
* Make sure the downloading addresses and filenames in README are
current. (But don't bump the version number yet. We do that below.)
* Check that the versions of aclocal, automake, autoconf, and autoheader
- in your PATH match those given in README. Note that the `make
+ in your PATH match those given in HACKING. Note that the `make
dist' process always invokes these tools, even when all the
generated files are up to date.
* Rebuild all generated files in the source tree:
+ Run autoheader.
+ Run automake.
* Verify that Guile builds and runs in your working directory.
-* Run the test suite, in guile-modules/test-suite.
+* Run the test suite, in guile-core/test-suite.
* Commit all changes to the CVS repository.
* Build a test distribution.
+ BEFORE doing 'make dist', configure the source tree for build
- in the same tree with configuration option --with-threads.
+ in the same tree with configuration options
+ --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-debug-malloc --with-threads.
+ Make sure that readline was enabled correctly.
+ Build the tree.
(If the above steps are not done, the dependencies won't be properly
included in the generated Makefile.in files.)
+ Then do 'make dist'.
+ + Check that the dependencies in guile-readline/Makefile look OK.
+ (We currently use a kludge which edits the dependencies generated
+ by automake so that Guile can be built in a directory separate
+ from the source tree also with non-GNU make programs.)
* Give the test disty to various people to try. Here's what you should do:
+ Unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH.
+ Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off their
version numbers of the form "N.M.L", where L is odd.
* Start a new section of the NEWS file.
* Start a new THANKS file.
-* Send mail to majordomo-owner@cygnus.com updating the message you
- get when you ask majordomo for "info guile".
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