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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index b19e82cb1..000000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -This is a nightly snapshot of Guile, the GNU extension language -library. Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu. - -IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT SNAPSHOTS: - - Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental; - they will usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on - some systems. They may contain interfaces which will change. - They will usually not be of sufficient quality for use by people - not comfortable hacking the innards of Guile. Caveat! - - However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons. We'd like - to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile. People - willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access - to new, experimental features. Patches submitted relative to recent - snapshots will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the - patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with. - And it allows us to start testing features earlier. - -Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C. -Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be -linked in as a library when building extensible programs. - -Guile is derived from SCM, by Aubrey Jaffer and others. Tom Lord -librarified SCM, yielding Guile. He wrote Guile's operating system, -Ice-9, connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular expression -matcher, and took care of a lot of miscellany. - -Interesting files include: -- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile. -- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile. -- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute - Guile, and explains that there is no warranty. - -The Guile source tree is laid out as follows: - -doc: Documentation for Guile, in Texinfo form. -libguile: - The Guile Scheme interpreter, packaged as an object library - for you to link with your programs. -guile: An interactive front end for the Guile Scheme interpreter. -rx: A regular expression matching library, interfaced to Guile. -ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure. -lang: A Guile module of tools for writing lexical analyzers and parsers. -ctax: A Guile module providing a C-like syntax for Scheme. -gtcltk-lib: - Glue code for talking to tcl/tk from Guile. The Tcl/Tk - developers have big plans for the next major release of Tcl/Tk - which will make possible a clean, direct interface between - Guile and Tk, so we're providing this very simple-minded - interface until that's ready. |