Guile-WWW 2.35 available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

release notes:

  Dipping a toe into Guile 2.  :-D

  thi

README excerpt:

  This is the Guile WWW library, a set of Guile Scheme
  modules to facilitate HTTP, URL and CGI programming.

NEWS excerpt:

  - 2.35 | 2012-11-06

    - support for "make installcheck"

        This does "make check" at its core, so the same env vars apply.
        Obviously, you should do "make install" first for sane results.

    - ‘receive-response’ spec takes thunk for ‘custom’ handling

        This means that instead of using:

        (list 'custom (values P1 P2 P3 P4))

        to construct a ‘receive-response’ spec, you can use:

        (list 'custom (lambda () (values P1 P2 P3 P4)))

        In fact, this is now the preferred way, as support for using
        ‘values’ directly is now deemed a misfeature and marked for
        eventual removal (see below).

    - tested against Guile 2.0.6

        There are some deprecation warnings, however.

    - MARKED FOR REMOVAL

      - 2013-05-15 support for values in ‘receive-response’ spec

        Out of an explicit ‘call-with-values’ context, Guile 2.x will
        silently discard all values but the first if the continuation
        expects one value only (the common case).

        (cons 0 (values 1 2)) => (0 . 1)

        Thus, the ‘receive-response’ spec constructed by:

        (list 'custom (values P1 P2 P3 P4))

        fails to preserve P2, P3, P4 (w/ Guile 2.x).  See above for
        thunk support, the future-proof way to specify ‘custom’ procs.

    - bootstrap tools upgrade
      - GNU Autoconf 2.69
      - GNU Automake 1.12.4
      - Guile-BAUX 20121026.1208.c21074a

home page:

  http://www.nongnu.org/guile-www/

patronage:

  http://www.gnuvola.org/patronage.html

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