execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building
extensible programs.
+Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
+
About Snapshots ======================================================
+
Each night, we make the current Guile sources available via anonymous
FTP. Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly
experimental; they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even
Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
For getit, that's: ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
+The snapshot FTP site is mirrored at the following locations:
+ Austria: ftp://ftp.aec.at/pub/guile
+ Japan: ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/lang/scheme/guile
-Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
About This Distribution ==============================================
will need to link your code against this too.
<libguile.h>, <libguile/*.h> --- header files for libguile.a, usually
installed in /usr/local/include.
-
+ice-9, ice-9/*.scm --- run-time support for Guile: the module
+ system, read-eval-print loop, some R4RS code and other
+ infrastructure. Usually installed in
+ /usr/local/share/guile/<version>.
Interesting files include:
- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
program would like to use. Available in
"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
-Automake 1.1p --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
+Automake 1.2d --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards. The
nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
`guile.m4' from the top directory of the Guile core disty to
`/usr/local/share/aclocal.
-libtool 0.9h --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
+libtool 1.0e --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
on various systems to produce shared libraries. Available in
- "ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu".
+ "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu".
You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
different.
The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions,
and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to
guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and
-fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
+fixes!) to bug-guile@gnu.org.
Authors And Contributors =============================================
system, Ice-9, and connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular
expression matcher.
-Aubrey Jaffer seriously tuned performance and added features. He
-designed many hairy but beautiful parts of the tag system and
-evaluator.
+Aubrey Jaffer is the author of SCM upon which Guile is based. Guile
+started from SCM version 4e1 in November -94 and is still largely
+composed of the original SCM code.
George Carrette wrote SIOD, a stand-alone scheme interpreter.
Although most of this code as been rewritten or replaced over time,