[ann] fibers 0.5.0 released

2017-01-18 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of Fibers 0.5.0. Fibers is a lightweight concurrency facility for Guile that supports non-blocking input and output, millions of concurrent threads, and Concurrent ML-inspired communication primitives. For more information, see the web version of the manua

GNU Guile 2.1.6 released (beta)

2017-01-18 Thread Andy Wingo
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.1.6. Guile 2.1.6 is the sixth pre-release in what will eventually become the 2.2 release series. We encourage you to test this release and provide feedback to guile-de...@gnu.org. This is a bug-fix release, mostly fixing bugs related to threads and

Re: r7rs libraries (or, Fwd: fmt for Guile)

2017-01-18 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Not sure if this belongs on guile-user or guile-devel, but... > > See below for a conversation Alex Shinn gave me permission to forward. > > I asked Alex about getting Guile added to the set of > out-of-the-box-supported Scheme implementations for fmt; they repl

Converting SXML to XML

2017-01-18 Thread sidhu1f
Greetings Tried converting SXML to XML using sxml->xml function in (sxml simple) module, but it cannot handle SXML '*COMMENT*' construct, among others. Didn't find a conversion function in (saxml ssax) either. Is there an established way to convert SXML to XML? Else, is there an effort to develop