module/slib/ANNOUNCE

   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