This is not a Guile release; it is a source tree retrieved via
anonymous CVS or as a nightly snapshot at some random time after the
-Guile 1.3.4 release.
+Guile 1.4 release.
-This is version 1.3.5 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language
+This is version 1.4.1 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language
library. Guile is an interpreter for Scheme, packaged as a library
that you can link into your applications to give them their own
scripting language. Guile will eventually support other languages as
contains example source code for the "Defining New Types (Smobs)" chapter.
The incomplete Guile reference manual is available at
-ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz
-There is a plan to distribute the reference manual with guile-core,
-with much of the text generated from the docstrings in the sources.
-The docstrings are likely to be more up-to-date than the reference
-manual at present (see libguile/guile-procedures.txt which is
+ ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz
+
+Neil Jerram is working on the new reference manual, which will be
+distributed with guile-core. The new manual will be synchronized with
+the docstrings in the sources. Until then, please be aware that the
+docstrings are likely to be more up-to-date than the old reference
+manual (use `(help)' or see libguile/guile-procedures.txt which is
generated by the build process).
+The Guile WWW page is at
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
+
+It contains a link to the Guile FAQ.
+
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