system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting
for."
-In release 1.4:
-- remove names evalext.c: serial-map,
- ramap.c: serial-array-copy!, serial-array-map!
-- remove module (ice-9 getopt-gnu-style)
-- remove kw.h, scm_tc16_kw
-- remove genio.h
-- remove deprecated function scm_newsmob.
+* Deprecate `read-only-string?'.
+
+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,
+ SCM_NVECTORP
+- remove gc-thunk (It has been replaced by after-gc-hook.)
+- remove scm_sysmissing
+- remove gh_int2scmb (replaced by gh_bool2scm)
+- remove scm_fseek (replaced by scm_seek)
+- 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.
+- 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 variables:
+ scm_top_level_lookup_closure_var
+- remove deprecated functions:
+ eval.c: scm_eval2, scm_eval_3
+ load.c: scm_read_and_eval_x
+- remove deprecated procedures:
+ boot-9.scm:eval-in-module
+- 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])
+- remove support for "#&" reader syntax in (ice-9 optargs).
+- remove scm_make_shared_substring
+- remove scm_read_only_string_p
+- remove scm_strhash
+- remove scm_tc7_ssymbol
+- remove scm_tc7_msymbol
+- remove scm_tcs_symbols
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
dec-mips-ultrix
+Perry Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
+
+ NetBSD
+
Release Checklists ===================================================
directory.
* Check for files that have changed a lot, but do not have up-to-date
copyright notices. This can be as simple as doing:
- grep 'Copyright' * | grep -v 1999
+ grep 'Copyright' * | grep -v 1999
and looking for files you know you've worked on a lot.
* Make sure NEWS, INSTALL and the docs are up to date:
+ Scan the ChangeLogs for user-visible changes, marked with an asterisk
* 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:
+ Install the .m4 files where aclocal will find them.
+ Run aclocal.
- + Run automake.
+ Run autoconf.
+ 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.
- Make sure that readline was enabled correctly.
- If this is not done, there will be missing dependencies in two
- Makefile.in.
+ 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
* Add "Guile N.M released." entry to the top-level ChangeLog, and commit it.
* Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form "release_N_M"
or "release_N_M_L".
+* Do a 'make dist'.
* Put the distribution up for FTP somewhere, and send mail to
ftp-upload@gnu.org, asking them to put it on prep.
* Send an announcement message to gnu-announce@gnu.org. Put a brief
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".