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-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.