The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. I just wrote something on all items that I could, but it's probably pretty bad, still. Please mail me edits. Specifically, these:
* Main additions - Ryan: stxclass - Stevie: Unit contracts, region contract, etc - scribble/text much improved: deals with indentation * Possible items - Sam: TS news? (new wrappers, new syntax, etc) - Robby: Redex news? probably need a proper blurb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PLT Scheme version 4.1.5 is now available from http://plt-scheme.org/ * Web Server: - new URL-based dispatching library `web-server/dispatch', - customizable continuation serialization policies for the stateless web language `web-server/stuffers', - abstraction of serve/servlet to build simpler dispatchers `web-server/servlet-env', - HTTP Digest authentication support `web-server/http/digest-auth', - built-in cookie support in `web-server/http/cookie' and `web-server/http/cookie-parse', - highlighting and pretty-printing of errors in Xexpr constructions, - load control dispatcher for limit concurrent sessions `web-server/dispatchers/limit'. * Scribble: - Literate programming is now available using the new `scribble/lp' language. - A new `at-exp' language makes it convenient to use the scribble reader's @-expressions for general code. - The `scribble/text' preprocessor language has been extended to deal with indentation and other formatting issues. - The "scribble" command-line tool accepts a `--pdf' flag to render PDFs (via pdflatex). * DrScheme now provides feedback when PLaneT downloads and installs new packages. * Language levels and teachpacks from the DeinProgramm project for the German textbook "Die Macht der Abstraktion" by Herbert Klaeren and Michael Sperber have been added. * Misc: - The `xml' and `html' collections are now contracted. - Binding parsing in net/cgi now interacts with `net/uri-codec's configuration parameters. - DrScheme captures logging output. - Check syntax: it is now possible to tack arrows crossing the currently selected text. - SRFI collections are available with R6RS-frienly names as in SRFI-97. - New `bitwise-bit-field' function. * The usual pile of bugfixes. (Notable: `scheme/package' works, `deflate' compression fixed, DrScheme language dialog issue resolved, `match' fixes, Windows networking, and much more.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
