Release Digest: GNU, March 21, 2004

GNU CLISP 2.33

Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming
language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible
of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University,
both in Germany. It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI
Common Lisp standard. It runs on microcomputers (Windows
NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME) as well as on Unix workstations
(Linux, SVR4, Sun4, DEC Alpha OSF, HP-UX, BeOS, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX
and others) and needs only 2 MB of RAM. It is Free Software and may
be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL, while it is possible to
distribute commercial applications compiled with GNU CLISP.
The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch
and Russian.
GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, a
foreign language interface, sockets, i18n, fast bignums and more.
An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO. GNU
CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.

More information at
<http://clisp.cons.org/>;,
<http://www.clisp.org/>;,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/>;
and
<http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>;.

Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp
from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/>

and its mirrors.

2.33 (2004-03-17)

Important notes

• All .fas files generated by previous CLISP versions are invalid
  and must be recompiled. Use CUSTOM:LOAD-OBSOLETE-ACTION to
  automate this. See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#loadfile>;
  for details.

User visible changes

• NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD, NO-PRIMARY-METHOD and NO-NEXT-METHOD now
  signal METHOD-CALL-ERROR or METHOD-CALL-TYPE-ERROR.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#meth-call-err>;
  for details.
• New user variables CUSTOM:APROPOS-MATCHER and
  CUSTOM::APROPOS-DO-MORE make APROPOS more flexible in
  search and output.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#apropos>;
  for details.
• New function EXT:MOD-EXPT efficiently computes the composition
  of MOD and EXPT on integers.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#int-func-ext>;
  for details.
• New function EXT:ARGV returns the command line arguments passed
  to runtime. See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#argv>;
  for details.
• New generic function GRAY:STREAM-POSITION extends FILE-POSITION
  to Gray streams; FILE-POSITION now works with streams other than
  FILE-STREAMs.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#gray>;
  for details.
• DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION and friends are now implemented.
  Thanks to James Anderson <james.anderson@setf.de>.
  This change obsoleted all compiled file.

Portability

• Improved portability for nearly all platforms: Linux, MacOS X,
  Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS.
• Removed Acorn RISCOS support.
• Removed AmigaOS support.
• Removed support for MSDOS and OS/2, using EMX.
• Removed support for Borland C compiler on Win32.
• Added FFI support for x86_64 (AMD64) Linux and PowerPC MacOS
  X.

—
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GNU Libidn 0.4.2 alpha

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and
IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain
Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.
The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does
Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibitation of
characters, and bidirectional character handling. Profiles for
Nameprep, iSCSI, SASL and XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII
Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA are supported. A mechanism to
define Top-Level Domain (TLD) specific validation tables, and to
compare strings against those tables, is included. Default tables
for some TLDs are also included.

Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.4.2.tar.gz
(1.6)
http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.4.2.tar.gz
(1.6MB)

Here are GPG detached signatures:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.4.2.tar.gz.sig

http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.4.2.tar.gz.sig

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
http://josefsson.org/autobuild/libidn.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:

194d3d8e68501d3363f3842d83b96f1f libidn-0.4.2.tar.gz
6bd33d45963945b760fa56e007598bb196a3d893 libidn-0.4.2.tar.gz

Noteworthy changes since version 0.4.0 (the last version
announced here):

• Version 0.4.2 (released 2004-03-20)
  • A Punycode implementation in Java was added, by Oliver Hitz.
    Eventually hopefully a StringPrep, Nameprep and IDNA implementation
    will be added as well. Currently you need to specify –enable-java
    to enable the Java interface. The Java sources (below java/) are
    compiled into byte-code (not native code) into a JAR library.
  • More translations. Added Danish (by Morten Bo Johansen), French
    (by Michel Robitaille), Polish (by Jakub Bogusz), and Serbian (by
    Aleksandar Jelenak).
  • Norwegian TLD table added, by Thomas Jacob.
  • API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous
    version.
• Version 0.4.1 (released 2004-03-08)
  • The user messages from the command line utility are now
    translated. Currently English and Swedish is supported.
  • Logic of stringprep_locale_charset modified. Future versions
    will use, in order, $CHARSET iff defined, nl_langinfo (CODESET) iff
    working, or fall back to returning “ASCII”. Earlier it attempted to
    guess the system locale, in contrast with the current application’s
    locale, via some setlocale save/set/reset magic. This change may
    require you to invoke setlocale() in your application, which is
    (should be) required for non-ASCII to work anyway. Based on
    discussion with Ulrich Drepper.
  • The command-line utility now invoke setlocale (LC_ALL, “”) at
    startup.
  • Fixed SASLprep tables to prohibit non-ASCII space in output.
    Non-ASCII space has always been mapped to ASCII space, so it is not
    clear this really have any effect, but the specification require
    it.
  • Building Libidn as part of GLIBC has been updated. Refer to
    libc/README for more information. Incidentally, GLIBC in CVS now
    include a copy of Libidn.
  • API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
    IDNA_DLOPEN_ERROR: ADD. Only used internally by Libidn in
    libc.