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This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib2d1.

New in slib2d1:

 + Linux RPM distribution.

 + Automated generation of HTTP/HTML static and (multi-client)
   dynamically editable tables from relational databases.
   (HTTP server demo at http://www.foxkid.net:8143/tla/).

 + Reference implementation of Metric Interchange Format:
   "Representation of numerical values and SI units in character strings
   for information interchanges"
   http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/MIXF.html

	* Makefile (rpm): Added to dist target.
	(mfiles): Added slib.spec.
	* slib.spec: Added spec file to generate a .rpm file.
	Largely based on that of Dr. Robert J. Meier
	<robert.meier@computer.org>
	* Makefile (docfiles): Added all the *.txi.
	* db2html.scm (HTML editing tables): Replaced "record" with "row".
	* http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Null string --> #f.
	* coerce.scm (type-of): Removed 'null; broke (coerce '() 'string).
	* htmlform.scm (html:meta, html:http-equiv): Added.
	* htmlform.scm (html:meta-refresh): Added.
	* http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Only separate words
	for nary parameters.
	* getparam.scm (getopt->parameter-list): Accomodate positional
	arguments, both ends.
	(getopt->parameter-list, getopt->arglist): Take optional
	description strings.
	* db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Added optional
	arguments passed to command:modify-table.
	(command:modify-table): Added null-keys argument; removed pkl.
	* http-cgi.scm (http:forwarding-page): Added.
	* htmlform.scm (html:text-area): fixed.
	* http-cgi.scm (coerce->list): Added.
	* paramlst.scm (check-arities): Generate warning for wrong arity.
	* db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Deduce arities.
	* comlist.scm (comlist:list-of??): Added.
	* coerce.scm (coerce, type-of): Extracted from comlist.scm.
	* uri.scm (uri:path->keys): Takes list of type-symbols.
	* simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): bit is "bit" (not b).
	* uri.scm (uri:decode-path, uri:path->keys): Now take path-list
	instead of path.  Fixes bug when '/' was in URI path.
	* http-cgi.scm (make-query-alist-command-server): Renamed from
	make-uriencoded-command-server; takes query-alist instead of
	query-string.  Diagnostics can use query-alist without recreating.
	* db2html.scm (html:linked-row-converter): If a field has a
	foreign-key of "*catalog-data*", then link to foreign table.
	(catalog->html, table->linked-html): Put caption at BOTTOM.
	* htmlform.scm (command->p-specs): Renamed from command->html
	because it has changed so much.  No longer does mapper argument.
	* db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Returns editing-row
	procedure.
	* htmlform.scm (html:select, html:buttons, form:element,
	form:delimited): value-list and visibles arguments combined.
	* dbutil.scm (get-foreign-choices): extracted from command->html.
	(make-defaulter): Added.
	* strcase.scm (symbol-append): Added.
	* http-cgi.scm (make-uriencoded-command-server): Only apply comval
	if arglist worked.
	* htmlform.scm (command->html): Big change; returns list of
	results of application of (new) MAPPER argument.
	(form:delimited, form:tabled): Added MAPPER procedures.
	* db2html.scm (html:editable-row-converter): Check for
	edit-converter being #f.
	(command:make-editable-table): *keys*, *row-hash* NOT optional.
	* htmlform.scm (form:element): Extracted from html:generate-form.
	* db2html.scm (html:editable-row-converter): Added.
	(command:modify-table): Handle case all fields are primary keys.
	* db2html.scm (command:modify-table, command:make-editable-table):
	(HTML editing tables): Added.
	* htmlform.scm (form:submit): Enhanced.
	* uri.scm (uri:decode-authority, make-uri): en/decode userinfo.
	(uri:make-path): Added.
	(read-anchor-string): Removed; just use paths for combined keys.
	* slib.texi (Lists as sets): Examples had incorrect order in
	returned lists.
	* uri.scm (html:base, html:isindex): Added.
	(uri->tree): Optional base-tree argument added for relative URI.
	Brought into full conformance with RFC 2396 test cases.
	* uri.scm (html:anchor, html:link uri->tree make-uri): Added.
	(uri:split-fields, uri:decode-query): Moved and renamed from
	http-cgi.scm.
	* htmlform.scm (form:image): Added.
	* uri.scm: Added collected URI functions from "http-cgi.scm" and
	"db2html.scm".
	* makcrc.scm (make-port-crc): Added CRC-16 default.  Can now take
	just generator argument.
	* db2html.scm (html:linked-row-converter, table->linked-html,
	table->linked-page, db->html-files, db->html-directory): more
	evocative names.
	(html:catalog-row-converter): Stripped down version for catalog.
	* pp.scm (pretty-print->string): Added.
	(pp:pretty-print): Use (output-port-width port) for width.
	* genwrite.scm (genwrite:newline-str): abstracted.
	* htmlform.scm (html:pre): Improved HTML formatting.
	* http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Made robust for
	unexpected option-names; and generates warning.
	* db2html.scm: Fixed HTML per http://validator.w3.org/check.
	* simetrix.scm (SI:conversion-factor): Negative return codes.
	* simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): Added katal.  Replaced bel (B)
	with decibel (dB).
	(SI:prefix-exponents): Added [IEC 60027-2] binary prefixes.
	(SI:unit-infos): Added bit and byte (B).
	* simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): Updated eV and u from CODATA-1998.
	(SI:solidus): Abstracted parse functions.
	* simetrix.scm: SI Metric Interchange Format for Scheme Added.
	* scanf.scm (stdio:scan-and-set read-ui): Fixed dependence on LET
	evaluation order.
	* schmooz.texi: Split out from slib.texi.
	* printf.scm (stdio:parse-float): Adjust so %e format prints an
	exponent of zero for 0.0
	* dbutil.scm (dbutil:list-table-definition): Added.
	* db2html.scm (html:caption): Split out from html:table.
	* rdms.scm (sync-database): Added.
	* pnm.scm (pnm:array-write): PGMs were always being written with
	15 for maxval.
	* http-cgi.scm (make-urlencoded-command-server): Uses the value of
	*suggest* if *command* is not in the query-string; if neither uses
	literal *default*.
	* htmlform.scm (html:form html:hidden html:checkbox html:text
	html:text-area html:select html:buttons form:submit form:reset):
	Procedures documented.  No longer builds in <DL> tags.
	* htmlform.scm (html:blank): Added.
	(html:plain): Returns non-break-space for html:blank.
	(html:select html:buttons command->html html:generate-form): Added
	support for VISIBLE-NAME field for foreign-key domains.
	* debug.scm (for-each-top-level-definition-in-file): define-syntax
	is a top-level-definition too.
	* makcrc.scm (make-port-crc): Converted to use read-byte.
	* htmlform.scm (html:generate-form): was ignoring method.

From Ben Goetter <goetter@mazama.net>
	* pscheme.init: Revised.

From Lars Arvestad <arve@inddama.sto.se.pnu.com>
	* gambit.init (*features*): Gambit 3.0 provides
	call-with-input-string and call-with-output-string.

SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility
functions for all standard Scheme implementations.

SLIB includes initialization files for Bigloo, Chez, DrScheme, ELK,
GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme Scheme->C,
Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.

Documentation includes a manifest, installation instructions, and
coding guidelines for the library.  Documentation of each library
package is supplied.  SLIB Documentation is online at:

	     http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html

SLIB is available from:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib2d1.zip
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-2d1-1.noarch.rpm
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib2d1.zip
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-2d1-1.noarch.rpm

SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.zip
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-psd1-3.zip

SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB:
 http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/schelog/

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SLIB
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
 ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz
Commit	Line	Data
9ddacf86 KN	1	This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib2d1.
	2
	3	New in slib2d1:
	4
	5	+ Linux RPM distribution.
	6
	7	+ Automated generation of HTTP/HTML static and (multi-client)
	8	dynamically editable tables from relational databases.
	9	(HTTP server demo at http://www.foxkid.net:8143/tla/).
	10
	11	+ Reference implementation of Metric Interchange Format:
	12	"Representation of numerical values and SI units in character strings
	13	for information interchanges"
	14	http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/MIXF.html
	15
	16	* Makefile (rpm): Added to dist target.
	17	(mfiles): Added slib.spec.
	18	* slib.spec: Added spec file to generate a .rpm file.
	19	Largely based on that of Dr. Robert J. Meier
	20	<robert.meier@computer.org>
	21	* Makefile (docfiles): Added all the *.txi.
	22	* db2html.scm (HTML editing tables): Replaced "record" with "row".
	23	* http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Null string --> #f.
	24	* coerce.scm (type-of): Removed 'null; broke (coerce '() 'string).
	25	* htmlform.scm (html:meta, html:http-equiv): Added.
	26	* htmlform.scm (html:meta-refresh): Added.
	27	* http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Only separate words
	28	for nary parameters.
	29	* getparam.scm (getopt->parameter-list): Accomodate positional
	30	arguments, both ends.
	31	(getopt->parameter-list, getopt->arglist): Take optional
	32	description strings.
	33	* db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Added optional
	34	arguments passed to command:modify-table.
	35	(command:modify-table): Added null-keys argument; removed pkl.
	36	* http-cgi.scm (http:forwarding-page): Added.
	37	* htmlform.scm (html:text-area): fixed.
	38	* http-cgi.scm (coerce->list): Added.
	39	* paramlst.scm (check-arities): Generate warning for wrong arity.
	40	* db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Deduce arities.
	41	* comlist.scm (comlist:list-of??): Added.
	42	* coerce.scm (coerce, type-of): Extracted from comlist.scm.
	43	* uri.scm (uri:path->keys): Takes list of type-symbols.
	44	* simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): bit is "bit" (not b).
	45	* uri.scm (uri:decode-path, uri:path->keys): Now take path-list
	46	instead of path. Fixes bug when '/' was in URI path.
	47	* http-cgi.scm (make-query-alist-command-server): Renamed from
	48	make-uriencoded-command-server; takes query-alist instead of
	49	query-string. Diagnostics can use query-alist without recreating.
	50	* db2html.scm (html:linked-row-converter): If a field has a
	51	foreign-key of "catalog-data", then link to foreign table.
	52	(catalog->html, table->linked-html): Put caption at BOTTOM.
	53	* htmlform.scm (command->p-specs): Renamed from command->html
	54	because it has changed so much. No longer does mapper argument.
	55	* db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Returns editing-row
	56	procedure.
	57	* htmlform.scm (html:select, html:buttons, form:element,
	58	form:delimited): value-list and visibles arguments combined.
	59	* dbutil.scm (get-foreign-choices): extracted from command->html.
	60	(make-defaulter): Added.
	61	* strcase.scm (symbol-append): Added.
	62	* http-cgi.scm (make-uriencoded-command-server): Only apply comval
	63	if arglist worked.
	64	* htmlform.scm (command->html): Big change; returns list of
65	results of application of (new) MAPPER argument.
66	(form:delimited, form:tabled): Added MAPPER procedures.
67	* db2html.scm (html:editable-row-converter): Check for
68	edit-converter being #f.
69	(command:make-editable-table): keys, row-hash NOT optional.
70	* htmlform.scm (form:element): Extracted from html:generate-form.
71	* db2html.scm (html:editable-row-converter): Added.
72	(command:modify-table): Handle case all fields are primary keys.
73	* db2html.scm (command:modify-table, command:make-editable-table):
74	(HTML editing tables): Added.
75	* htmlform.scm (form:submit): Enhanced.
76	* uri.scm (uri:decode-authority, make-uri): en/decode userinfo.
77	(uri:make-path): Added.
78	(read-anchor-string): Removed; just use paths for combined keys.
79	* slib.texi (Lists as sets): Examples had incorrect order in
80	returned lists.
81	* uri.scm (html:base, html:isindex): Added.
82	(uri->tree): Optional base-tree argument added for relative URI.
83	Brought into full conformance with RFC 2396 test cases.
84	* uri.scm (html:anchor, html:link uri->tree make-uri): Added.
85	(uri:split-fields, uri:decode-query): Moved and renamed from
86	http-cgi.scm.
87	* htmlform.scm (form:image): Added.
88	* uri.scm: Added collected URI functions from "http-cgi.scm" and
89	"db2html.scm".
90	* makcrc.scm (make-port-crc): Added CRC-16 default. Can now take
91	just generator argument.
92	* db2html.scm (html:linked-row-converter, table->linked-html,
93	table->linked-page, db->html-files, db->html-directory): more
94	evocative names.
95	(html:catalog-row-converter): Stripped down version for catalog.
96	* pp.scm (pretty-print->string): Added.
97	(pp:pretty-print): Use (output-port-width port) for width.
98	* genwrite.scm (genwrite:newline-str): abstracted.
99	* htmlform.scm (html:pre): Improved HTML formatting.
100	* http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Made robust for
101	unexpected option-names; and generates warning.
102	* db2html.scm: Fixed HTML per http://validator.w3.org/check.
103	* simetrix.scm (SI:conversion-factor): Negative return codes.
104	* simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): Added katal. Replaced bel (B)
105	with decibel (dB).
106	(SI:prefix-exponents): Added [IEC 60027-2] binary prefixes.
107	(SI:unit-infos): Added bit and byte (B).
108	* simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): Updated eV and u from CODATA-1998.
109	(SI:solidus): Abstracted parse functions.
110	* simetrix.scm: SI Metric Interchange Format for Scheme Added.
111	* scanf.scm (stdio:scan-and-set read-ui): Fixed dependence on LET
112	evaluation order.
113	* schmooz.texi: Split out from slib.texi.
114	* printf.scm (stdio:parse-float): Adjust so %e format prints an
115	exponent of zero for 0.0
116	* dbutil.scm (dbutil:list-table-definition): Added.
117	* db2html.scm (html:caption): Split out from html:table.
118	* rdms.scm (sync-database): Added.
119	* pnm.scm (pnm:array-write): PGMs were always being written with
120	15 for maxval.
121	* http-cgi.scm (make-urlencoded-command-server): Uses the value of
122	suggest if command is not in the query-string; if neither uses
123	literal default.
124	* htmlform.scm (html:form html:hidden html:checkbox html:text
125	html:text-area html:select html:buttons form:submit form:reset):
126	Procedures documented. No longer builds in <DL> tags.
127	* htmlform.scm (html:blank): Added.
128	(html:plain): Returns non-break-space for html:blank.
129	(html:select html:buttons command->html html:generate-form): Added
130	support for VISIBLE-NAME field for foreign-key domains.
131	* debug.scm (for-each-top-level-definition-in-file): define-syntax
132	is a top-level-definition too.
133	* makcrc.scm (make-port-crc): Converted to use read-byte.
134	* htmlform.scm (html:generate-form): was ignoring method.
135
136	From Ben Goetter <goetter@mazama.net>
137	* pscheme.init: Revised.
138
139	From Lars Arvestad <arve@inddama.sto.se.pnu.com>
140	* gambit.init (features): Gambit 3.0 provides
141	call-with-input-string and call-with-output-string.
142
143	SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility
144	functions for all standard Scheme implementations.
145
146	SLIB includes initialization files for Bigloo, Chez, DrScheme, ELK,
147	GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme Scheme->C,
148	Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
149
150	Documentation includes a manifest, installation instructions, and
151	coding guidelines for the library. Documentation of each library
152	package is supplied. SLIB Documentation is online at:
153
154	http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html
155
156	SLIB is available from:
157	http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib2d1.zip
158	http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-2d1-1.noarch.rpm
159	swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib2d1.zip
160	swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-2d1-1.noarch.rpm
161
162	SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
163	http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.zip
164	swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-psd1-3.zip
165
166	SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB:
167	http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/schelog/
168
169	Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SLIB
170	has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
171	ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz