[Chicken-users] Release candidate for 2.5 available

[felix winkelmann]

Hello!


A release candidate for CHICKEN 2.5 is available now:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken-2.5rc1.tar.gz

Please give it a try. This release contains mostly bugfixes and
can now be built using CMake (using CMake is the recommended
build method for Windows. I had problems building with CMake
on Linux, but the newest CVS version seems to work ok).

Feedback is very welcome - the new build machinery and distribution
generation might still have a few loose ends.

What's new:

- CHICKEN can now be built using CMake <http://www.cmake.org>, CMake
 is required to built CHICKEN from sources on Windows with the Microsoft
 tools
- the whole build process has been cleaned up and simplified
- the "easyffi" and "tinyclos" library units have been removed from the base
 system and are now available as separate extensions
- the deprecated "set-dispatch-read-syntax!" has been removed
- Will Farr cleaned up the behaviour of number-type specific numeric operations
 ("fx..."/"fp...") with respect to safe/unsafe mode
- added "(finite? NUMBER)"
- the "$" macro moved into its own separate extension
- the values of "software-type", "software-version", "machine-type"
and "machine-byte-order"
 are now registered as features and can be tested using "cond-expand" or "#+"
- all tools now support the "-release" option
- chicken-setup: added "-test" option

Special thanks to Brandon Van Every, who put considerable effort into the
CHICKEN build system and who ported it to CMake completely from scratch.
The installation instructions and build file are extensively documented and may
serve as a tutorial for creating non-trivial software projects with CMake.
Thanks, Brandon! Also thanks to Bill Hoffmann and Brad King from Kitware
for their support.

Many thanks to Peter Bex, Toby Butzon, Thomans Chust, John Cowan,
Alejandro Forero Cuervo,
dgym, Alex Drummond, Mario Domenech Goulart, Kon Lovett, Benedikt
Rosenau and Zbigniew
Szadkowski for reporting bugs, suggesting improvements and contributing fixes.


cheers,
felix

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