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Guile also comes with a growing number of command-line utilities: a
compiler, a disassembler, some module inspectors, and in the future, a
system to install Guile packages from the internet. These tools may be
-invoked using the @code{guild} program@footnote{Until Guile version
-2.0.1, this program was known as @code{guile-tools}. The
-@code{guile-tools} executable is still installed as of 2.0.x but may be
-removed in a future stable series.}.
+invoked using the @code{guild} program.
@example
$ guild compile -o foo.go foo.scm
wrote `foo.go'
@end example
-This program used to be called @code{guile-tools}, and for backward
+This program used to be called @code{guile-tools} up to
+Guile version 2.0.1, and for backward
compatibility it still may be called as such. However we changed the
name to @code{guild}, not only because it is pleasantly shorter and
easier to read, but also because this tool will serve to bind Guile