Re: [bootstrappable] GNU Mes 0.26 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.26.
>
> It's been only a month since the previous release mainly because most
> this work has been waiting for 0.25 to be released.  This release
> represents 194 commits over one year by two people.  This release brings
> Guile module support and support for running Gash and Gash-Utils.

Wo0t, congratulations!

>   *** Mes now has a Guile-compatible record interface.
>   *** Mes now has a Guile-compatible hash-table interface.
>   *** Mes now uses exceptions instead of asserts.
>   *** Mes now supports Guile-compatible modules and variable lookup.
>   *** The reader now supports `#\fs', `#\nl', and `#\np'.
>   *** Mes now supports vectors in syntax-rules.
>   *** Dynamic-wind was fully implemented.
>   *** Mes now has regex support.
>   *** Mes now supports functional record setters.
>   *** simple-format now supports `~%'.
>   *** Charsets can now be used in `string-index'.
>   *** The (srfi srfi-14) module was completed.
>   **** 9 new modules
>   (ice-9 ftw), (ice-9 i18n), (ice-9 receive), (ice-9 regex), (rnrs io
>   ports), (rnrs bytevectors), (srfi srfi-2). (srfi srfi-11). (srfi srfi-37).
>   **** 46 new functions
>   alist-cons, append-reverse!, call-with-port, call-with-input-file,
>   call-with-input-string, call-with-output-file, chdir, clone-port,
>   closedir, concatenate, drop, drop-while. environ, execle,
>   file-system-fold, fold-matches, getpid, hash-clear!, hash-fold,
>   hash-map->list, hash-remove!, hash-table?, link, list-matches,
>   match-let, mkdir, opendir, partition, pipe, primitive-exit, readdir,
>   reduce, rename-file, rmdir, seek, set-fields, span, sleep,
>   string-concatenate-reverse, string-count, string-pad, string-pad-right,
>   string>, string<, umask, uname, utimes, vector-fold.
>   *** Mes now supports running Gash and Gash-Utils.

This is big deal!!  That looks like an important milestone on the
bootstrapping journey in Guix.

Well done!

Ludo’.