Scheme Weekly News

Scheme Weekly News for 2003-10-27

URL: http://mjr.towers.org.uk/swn/

	This is a round-up of news and announcements related to the
	Scheme programming language, mostly taken from newsgroups,
	mailing lists and web sites that I'm aware of.	Feel free to
	send me more.  The aim is to publish in multiple formats on the
	web each week, but more on that very soon.  (Date: 2003-10-27)
	(Compiled by: MJ Ray)


Draft SRFIs 45 and 46

	New Scheme Requests For Implementation drafts were received
	for "Primitives for expressing iterative lazy algorithms" and
	"Ellipsis in Macro-Generating SYNTAX-RULES Macros"

URL: http://srfi.schemers.org/draft-srfis.html


WebIt! news

	WebIt is a module collection for PLT scheme for creating XML,
	HTML and CSS. The current release is 20030713 and the current
	release of ssax-rsxml happened on 9 August 2003.

URL: http://celtic.benderweb.net/webit/


Gauche 0.7.2

	Gauche is a scheme interpreter designed to be suitable for
	system scripting. This release adds dbm.fsdbm and improves
	gauche.charconv, gauche.process, gauche.net, www.cgi and many
	others.

URL: http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/


GNU TeXmacs 1.0.2.4

	GNU TeXmacs is a scientific document processor inspired by Emacs
	and LaTeX, but built with Guile Scheme. This is the first 1.0.2
	release reported by SWN and contains many improvements over the
	1.0.1 series.

URL: http://www.texmacs.org/


Quack 0.22

	Quack is an Emacs mode for editing scheme and working with scheme
	interpreters. This release updates Chicken manuals support,
	adds PLT error message navigation for compile, fixes XEmacs
	menus and introduces quack-newline-behavior setting.

URL: http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/


eguile 1.3

	eguile is an interpreter that evaluates guile scripts in html
	processing instructions.  This version includes a bug fix for the
	"chopping off the last bit" bug.

URL: http://woozle.org/~neale/src/eguile/index.html


Chicken 1.17

	Chicken is a Scheme compiler under a BSD-style licence. This
	release contains many bug fixes, new features, improved
	scheduling, removal of special cases and brings the version
	number back to 2 decimal places.

URL: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken.html


New Gauche GTK and GL bindings

	These releases are from early October for Gauche 0.7.2.  They are
	Gauche-gl 0.3 and Gauche-gtk 0.3.1.  There is also a new wiki
	page for contributed modules for Gauche scheme.

URL: http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/packages.html


Swindle 20030913

	Swindle is a module collection for PLT Scheme that includes a
	CLOS-like object system and much more.	It is under the LGPL
	and this release is for PLT 205.

URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/eli/Swindle/


Bugloo 0.3.0

	Bugloo is a command line based debugger. User can control the
	debugger by typing Scheme-like expression into a prompt. For
	the sake of simplicity, Bugloo includes a debugging environment
	for Emacsen

URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bugloo


GIMP 1.3.17

	The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a sophisticated graphics
	editor with the ability to run scheme scripts on images.
	This release includes many feature enhancements and bug fixes.

URL: http://www.gimp.org/download.html


guile-gobject 0.5.3

	Guile bindings for glib, pango, atk, gdk, and gtk+.  There are
	no large changes in this release. The author uses it daily in
	his guile bindings for gstreamer.  Download Link.

URL: http://ambient.2y.net/tmp/guile-gobject-0.5.3.tar.gz


DS-GROK-LC at CCC

	Discordian Section of the Grand Recursive Order of the Knights
	of the Lambda Calculus will meet on the Chaos Communication Camp,
	7.-10. of August, near Berlin.

URL: https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/DS-GROK-LC


Schemix version 0.2.1

	Schemix is a Linux loadable kernel module that allows you to
	access kernel functions from a scheme interpreter.  This release
	improves support for Schemix in scheme, includes more of R4RS
	and simplifies the build system.

URL: https://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2230


Bigloo 2.6a

	Bigloo is a practical Scheme compiler.	2.6a is a major release
	introducing experimental .NET bytecode generation. The compiler
	is now able to produce (i) native code (ii) JVM bytecode
	(iii) .NET bytecode.  The release also includes new libraries,
	improvements and bug fixes.

URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo