[Chicken-users] CHICKEN 4.6.3 development snapshot available

[Felix]

Hello!


A development snapshot of version 4.6.3 is now available for
download, see

  http://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/


The news:

- Peter Bex has cleaned up the makefiles heavily, making the
  build more maintainable and easier to modify; thanks to all
  who helped testing this new build
- renamed the makefile to `GNUmakefile' to catch using the
  a make(3) other than GNU make
- `-fwrapv' is disabled on OpenBSD, since the default compiler
  does not support this option (thanks to Christian Kellermann)
- on Solaris `gcc' is used by default, override `C_COMPILER'
  to use the Sun compiler instead
- added the new foreign type `size_t' (suggested by Moritz 
  Heidkamp)
- added the missing `unsigned-integer64' foreign type (thanks
  to Moritz for catching this)
- added support for proxy-authentification to `chicken-install'
  (thanks to Iruata Souza)
- `define-record' now allows defining SRFI-17 setter procedures
  for accessing slots
- removed the stub definition for `define-macro'
- added new foreign type `pointer-vector' which maps to `void **'
  and provided a low-level API in the `lolevel' library unit
  for manipulating pointer vectors
- declaring a function `notinline' will prevent direct-call
  optimization for known procedure calls
- when compiling in C++ mode, the compiler will be called with
  the `-Wno-write-strings' option
- the expansion of DSSSL lambda-lists uses now `let-optionals*'
  internally instead of `let-optionals' and so allows back-references
  to earlier formal variables; this also results in faster and
  more compact code for argument-list destructuring (thanks to Alan
  Post)
- Peter Bex has contributed various bugfixes and performance
  enhancements to the `irregex' library unit
- fixed bug in `getter-with-setter' that modified the first argument
  if it already had a setter procedure attached
- added a SRFI-17 setter to `list-ref'
- control-characters in symbol-names are now properly escaped if
  the symbol is printed readably (thanks to Alaric Snell-Pym Blagrave 
  for pointing this out)
- added literal blob syntax ("#{ ... }")
- `delete-directory' now optionally deletes directories recursively
- fixed incorrect size of internal data vector used in `time'
  (thanks to Kon Lovett)
- `list-tail' gives now a better error message when passed a non-list
  argument
- deadlock in the scheduler now terminates the process instead of
  attempting to throw an error
- added some sanity checks to the scheduler
- when installing from a local directory `chicken-install' now removes
  existing `*.so' files in that location to avoid stale binaries when
  the `make' syntax is used in setup scripts


cheers,
felix