March 2013 - cmucl-imp - mailman3.common-lisp.net

[cmucl-imp] A new snapshot
by Raymond Toy 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Due to a mistake I introduced in the 2013-02 snapshot that persists in the 2013-03 snapshot, that I just released, I'm taking the unusual step of generating a new 2013-03-a snapshot. The error is in the new function do-unary-byte-bash that is used in replace and other places. The problem is that replace doesn't do what it's supposed to do. This breaks lots of things, so rather than wait until April, I've decided to do another snapshot. The tag is snapshot-2013-03-a and is based on the current git code which has the fix and an update to unicode 6.2. Sorry about that. Ray

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[cmucl-imp] ASDF 2.32 released
by Faré 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Dear CMUCL hackers, ASDF 2.32 was released in time for inclusion in the upcoming CCL 1.9. Once again, we invite all implementation vendors and distributors to upgrade the version of ASDF included in their releases. Yes, I know, that's a lot of releases in a bit more than a month. But it was also a lot of development, and a lot of adjustment to reality after that development was first released. We will keep fixing bugs and improve ASDF based on our growing internal test suite and results from Anton Vodonosov's cl-test-grid. This is still a pre-release for ASDF3. Here are the changes, since previous release 2.31, and since previous public announcement for 2.30. >From 2.31 to 2.32: * deferred-warning checks are now disabled by default, to enhance backward compatibility with ASDF 2.26 and earlier. In the future, we will enable them by default, but not until we implement a smoother transition plan. Also, CCL-specific fixes to deferred-warning support. * UIOP is the new official name for ASDF-DRIVER. "Utilities for Implementation- and OS- Portability". Old names remain as package and system nicknames: ASDF/DRIVER ASDF-DRIVER ASDF-UTILS * require-system so systems may depend on implementation-provided modules. * auto-upgrade attempt in operate *before* the implicit find-system. * class specification for components can now be a string to be read as a symbol. * feature conditional dependencies are now debugged and tested: :depends-on ("some-system" (:feature :foo "other-system)) we only recommend them for dependencies between systems; within systems, we recommend you use feature-conditional components with :if-feature :foo and we only provide limited support for the deprecated legacy way of using feature-conditionals with a module having :if-component-dep-fails :ignore while its components specify things like: :in-order-to ((compile-op (feature :foo))) * read-from-file for :version specification is made more useful by using the ASDF-USER package rather than CL (into which interning is forbidden) to read the files. Changes from 2.30 to 2.31: * *default-encoding* is now UTF-8. As tested with cl-test-grid, This is a boon for most programs, that will compile in a more predictable way in a wider range of settings. A handful of unmaintained outliers still need to be fixed. * Downgrade is now explicitly avoided. ASDF will issue a warning if your system is misconfigured in a way that specifies downgrade, but will then ignore the specified ASDF downgrade. * version specifications, when invalid, will lead only to a warning for now; a future ASDF3 may restore the behavior of ASDF 2.27, that raises an errors when there is a bad :version specification, but for now, backward compatibility prevails. * ECL support received several bug fixes. * precompiled-system support was notably fixed, enabling single-fasl deployment of SBCL contribs. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. — John McCarthy, in his webpage on Progress and Sustainability

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[cmucl-imp] [Extended Deadline] European Lisp Symposium 2013 - Madrid - June 1-4
by Didier Verna 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

;; ______ _ _____ _ __ ____ ;; | ____| | | / ____| ( ) /_ | |___ \ ;; | |__ | | | (___ |/ | | __) | ;; | __| | | \___ \ | | |__ < ;; | |____ | |____ ____) | | | ___) | ;; |______| |______| |_____/ |_| |____/ ;; ;; European Lisp Symposium 2013 - ELS'13 ;; Madrid, Spain ;; ;; June 1-4, 2013 ;; ;; http://els2013.european-lisp-symposium.org/ ** DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 17th ** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The main theme of the 2013 European Lisp Symposium is on the use of these languages with respect to the current grand challenges: big tables, open data, semantic web, network programming, discovery, robustness, runtime failures, etc. The European Lisp Symposium 2013 solicits the submission of papers with these specific themes in mind, alongside the more traditional tracks which have appeared in the past editions. We invite submissions in the following forms: Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for no more than 5 minutes. All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998. Invited speakers: Florian Loitsch, Google: Dart, why you should care. Gérard Assayag, Ircam: Lisp and Music Research. Important dates: March, 17th 2013: submission deadline ** EXTENDED ** April, 5th 2013: acceptance results June, 1-4 2013: symposium Program Commitee: Pascal Costanza, Intel, Belgium Ludovic Courtes, INRIA, France Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Florian Loitsch, Google, Denmark Christian Queinnec, UPMC, France Kurt Noermark, Aalborg University, Denmark Olin Shivers, Northeastern University, USA Manuel Serrano, INRIA, France Didier Verna, EPITA, France Chair: Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll, local organizer Christian Queinnec, PC co-chair Manuel Serrano, PC co-chair -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com

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[cmucl-imp] March snapshot tagged
by Raymond Toy 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

The march snapshot has been tagged. Binaries will be uploaded soon. See the release notes for full details, but the most important change for this snapshot is a fix for FILE-POSITION for non-latin1 streams. (See ticket #74.) Ray

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