system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting
for."
+* Remove compatability module (ice-9 and-let*) eventually (when a
+ major release with the real module (ice-9 and-let-star) has been out
+ long enough, probably release 1.6).
+
+* Deprecate `read-only-string?'.
+
+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,
- 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.
-Dirk:FIXME:: look into deprecated things in numbers.h and tags.h, don't forget
-to update NEWS accordingly.
+- 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
+- remove deprecated macro from tags.h: SCM_DOUBLE_CELLP
+
+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
+ smob.c: scm_make_smob_type_mfpe, scm_set_smob_mfpe
+ gc.c: scm_remember
+- 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, SCM_SLOPPY_STRINGP, SCM_VALIDATE_STRINGORSUBSTR,
+ SCM_FREEP, SCM_NFREEP, SCM_CHARS, SCM_UCHARS, SCM_VALIDATE_ROSTRING,
+ SCM_VALIDATE_ROSTRING_COPY, SCM_VALIDATE_NULLORROSTRING_COPY, SCM_ROLENGTH,
+ SCM_LENGTH, SCM_HUGE_LENGTH, SCM_SUBSTRP, SCM_SUBSTR_STR, SCM_SUBSTR_OFFSET,
+ SCM_COERCE_SUBSTR, SCM_ROSTRINGP, SCM_RWSTRINGP, SCM_VALIDATE_RWSTRING,
+ SCM_ROCHARS, SCM_ROUCHARS, SCM_SETLENGTH, SCM_SETCHARS, SCM_LENGTH_MAX,
+ SCM_GC8MARKP, SCM_SETGC8MARK, SCM_CLRGC8MARK, SCM_GCTYP16, SCM_GCCDR,
+ SCM_SUBR_DOC, SCM_OPDIRP, SCM_VALIDATE_OPDIR
+- remove scm_vector_set_length_x
+- 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
+- remove scm_sloppy_memq, scm_sloppy_memv, scm_sloppy_member
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
* 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.
+ 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
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".