This message announces the availability of Scheme release scm-5e5. SCM conforms to Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme and the IEEE P1178 specification. SCM is written in C and runs under Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Windows, Unix, and similar systems. SCM is free software and part of the GNU project. It is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from SCM's home page: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM Links to distributions of SCM and related softwares are at the end of this message. -=-=- scm-5e5 news: * SCM is now a GNU package. * SCM license is now LGPLv3. * Documentation changed to GNU Free Documentation License. * scm-discuss email group http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/scm-discuss From Radey Shouman * repl.c (isymnames): Add name for IM_EVAL_VALUES. Fix igc prototype, avert warning. * eval.c (scm_eval_values, ceval_1): Catch VALUES arity errors in top-level repl evaluations. Eg (list (values 1 2)) now throws an error even when typed to repl. * scm.h (IM_EVAL_VALUES): Add isym for use by scm_eval_values. From Bob Schumaker * macos-config.h, unexmacosx.c, lastfile.c: Added from Emacs for MacOS (darwin). * build.scm (C-libraries): Added dump and dlll darwin entries. (make-dll-archive, compile-dll-c-files): Added Darwin tagets. (manifest): Added entries for "macos-config.h" and "lastfile.c". * Makefile (all): Make x.so only if /usr/X11R6/lib exists. (install, installlib): test -d is not needed with mkdir -p. From Aubrey Jaffer * build, Makefile, scm.spec: Put "-" between "scm" and version. * unexelf.c, unexmacosx.c, unexsgi.c, unexsunos4.c, gmalloc.c, lastfile.c, macos-config.h, r4rstest.scm, syntest2.scm, unexalpha.c, unexec.c, !#.c, build, build.scm, ecrt0.c, findexec.c, bench.scm: Changed license to GPL version 3. * Transcen.scm, Tscript.scm, unif.c, unix.c, x.c, xgen.scm, subr.c, sys.c, time.c, scm.texi, script.c, setjump.h, socket.c, split.scm, scm.c, scm.h, scmfig.h, scmhob.h, scmhob.scm, scmmain.c, repl.c, rgx.c, rope.c, sc2.c, scl.c, Macro.scm, Makefile, mkimpcat.scm, pi.c, pi.scm, posix.c, ramap.c, record.c, Iedline.scm, Init5e4.scm, Link.scm, Macexp.scm, inc2scm, ioext.c, Idiffer.scm, gsubr.c, hobbit.scm, .gdbinit, differ.c, disarm.scm, dynl.c, edline.c, eval.c, get-contoffset-ia64.c, byte.c, bytenumb.c, compile.scm, continue-ia64.S, continue.c, continue.h, crs.c, debug.c: Changed license to LGPL version 3. * Tscript.scm: Handle EOF. * byte.c (bytes-append, bytes->string, string->bytes): Added. * scm.nsi: Create shortcuts at installation; removed SCM.lnk. (MUI_ICON): Set to "SCM.ico". * scm.nsi (Uninstall): Delete tmp1, tmp2, and tmp3, scmlit.exe, implcat, and slibcat when uninstalling. * Makefile ($(htmldir)Xlibscm_toc.html) ($(htmldir)hobbit_toc.html): Add SCM.ico. (all): Make differ.so. (libscm.a, db.so, bytenumb.so, differ.so, myturtle, x.so): Depend on scm.h and scmfig.h. * scm.h, repl.c: Made ints_disabled VOLATILE. * ANNOUNCE: Culled and reorganized URLs. * ioext.c (directory-for-each): Require 'filename, not 'glob. * Init5e4.scm (slib:features): Added srfi-96. * scm.c (init_scm): The streams when the program was dumped need to be reset at initialization. * Makefile (Checklit, Check): Added case-sensitive checks. * repl.c (scm_lreadr): Made case-insensitive for character names. * keysymdef.scm, x11.scm: X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 -=-=- SCM source is available from: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e5.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5e5.zip http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e5-1.src.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5e5-1.src.rpm Also available as i386 binary RPM: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e5-1.i386.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5e5-1.i386.rpm Also available as i386 MS-Windows installer: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe SLIB is a portable Scheme library which SCM uses: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1.zip Also available as RPM: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.noarch.rpm Also available as MS-Windows installer: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3b1-1.exe JACAL is a symbolic math system written in Scheme: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b9.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b9.zip Also available as RPM: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b9-1.noarch.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b9-1.noarch.rpm Also available as MS-Windows installer: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b9-1.exe swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b9-1.exe WB is a disk based, sorted associative array (B-tree) library for SCM. Using WB, large databases can be created and managed from SCM. http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/wb-2a2.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/wb-2a2.zip http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/wb-2a2-1.src.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/wb-2a2-1.src.rpm Also available as i386 binary RPM: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/wb-2a2-1.i386.rpm swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/wb-2a2-1.i386.rpm FreeSnell is a program to compute optical properties of multilayer thin-film coatings: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1b7.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/FreeSnell-1b7.zip Also available as MS-Windows installer: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1b7-1.exe swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/FreeSnell-1b7-1.exe SIMSYNCH is a digital logic simulation system written in SCM. http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/synch-1c3.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/synch-1c3.zip XSCM is a X windows interface package which works with SCM: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/xscm-2.01.tar.gz swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/xscm-2.01.tar.gz TURTLSCM is a turtle graphics package which works with SCM on MS-DOS or X11 machines: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/turtlegr.tar.gz #! implements "#!" (POSIX) shell-scripts for MS-DOS batch files. http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/sharpbang.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/sharpbang.zip http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/#!.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/#!.zip SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor): http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz SMG-SCM is an SMG interface package which works with SCM on VMS. http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/smg-scm2a1.zip swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/smg-scm2a1.zip MacSCM is a Macintosh applications building package which works with SCM (similar to XSCM). http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/macscm.tar.Z swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/macscm.tar.Z Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SCM has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.gz