[armedbear-cvs] r11932 - public_html/staging
Erik Huelsmann
ehuelsmann at common-lisp.net
Sat May 23 09:46:06 UTC 2009
Author: ehuelsmann
Date: Sat May 23 05:46:03 2009
New Revision: 11932
Log:
Work-in-progress commit.
Added:
public_html/staging/release-notes-0.15.shtml (contents, props changed)
- copied, changed from r11757, /public_html/release-notes-0.14.shtml
Modified:
public_html/staging/index.shtml
public_html/staging/style.css
Modified: public_html/staging/index.shtml
==============================================================================
--- public_html/staging/index.shtml (original)
+++ public_html/staging/index.shtml Sat May 23 05:46:03 2009
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
- <title><!--#include virtual="project-name" --></title>
+ <title>Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) - Common Lisp on the JVM</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
<style>
@@ -14,20 +14,56 @@
<body>
<div class="header">
- <h1><!--#include virtual="project-name" --></h1>
+ <h1>Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) - Common Lisp on the JVM</h1>
</div>
-<div style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:10cm">
-<table style="margin-top:1cm" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
+<div style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:20cm">
+<table style="margin-top:1cm" cellspacing="15" cellpadding="0" >
+<tr><td class="summary-header">Feature list</td>
+<td class="summary-header">Users (development <em>with</em> ABCL)</td></tr>
+<tr><td>
+<ul>
+<li> Many JVM host environments (Sun, IBM, ...)
+<li> Interpreter
+<li> Compiler
+<li> Integration with Java programs
+<li> Java Scripting support (JSR-233)
+<li> ...
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td>
+<ul>
+<li> FAQ
+<li> Introduction: building & running
+<li> Documentation
+<li> Examples
+<li> Testimonials
+<li> Bug reporting
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
<tr>
-<th colspan="2">Overview</th></tr>
+<td class="summary-header">Developers (development <em>of</em> ABCL)
+<td class="summary-header"> Availability</td>
+</tr>
<tr>
-<td>Latest release: <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:85%">0.14.1</span></td>
-<td><a href="release-notes-0.14.shtml">Release notes</a></td>
-</tr><tr>
-<td style="width:5cm;text-align:center" colspan="2"><a href="testimonials.shtml">What people say about ABCL</a></td>
-</tr><tr>
-<td style="width:5cm"><a href="http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/wiki">Wiki</a></td><td style="width:5cm">FAQ (to be created)</td>
+<td>
+<ul>
+<li> Mailing list
+<li> Repository
+<li> Technical wiki
+<li> Bug tracker
+</ul>
+</td>
+</td>
+<td>
+Latest version: <b style="font-size:90%">0.15.0</b>
+<ul>
+<li> Download
+<li> Release notes
+<li> Change history
+</ul>
+</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
@@ -60,7 +96,7 @@
<br /><br />
ABCL is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
<br /><br />
- The latest version is 0.14.1, released April 5, 2009.
+ The latest version is 0.15.0, released June ??, 2009.
</dd>
</dl>
@@ -81,11 +117,11 @@
<dl>
<dd>
- <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.14.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=">abcl-src-0.14.1.tar.gz</a>
- (source, 632584 bytes)
+ <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.15.0.tar.gz?use_mirror=">abcl-src-0.15.0.tar.gz</a>
+ (source, ????? bytes)
<br /><br />
- <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.14.1.zip?use_mirror=">abcl-src-0.14.1.zip</a>
- (source, 1098276 bytes)
+ <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.15.0.zip?use_mirror=">abcl-src-0.15.0.zip</a>
+ (source, ??????? bytes)
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
@@ -110,16 +146,16 @@
ABCL is a young implementation (particularly by Lisp standards).
Even though a lot of energy is spent resolving issues, you may
well encounter bugs. A number of people have testified to the
- quality of ABCL being good enough for their needs though. See
- the testimonials page.
+ quality of ABCL being good enough for their needs though. Check
+ the testimonials page for their own words.
<br /><br />
- ABCL 0.14.1 fails 43 out of 21702 tests in the ANSI test suite
- in interpreted mode. In compiled mode ABCL 0.14.1 also fails 43 tests,
- coming from ca 44 in the last release.
- Most notable recent fixes relate to issues found through running
- the Maxima test suite. 0.13.0 is now able to run the test suite
- without only ca 75 failing tests, coming from ca 1400 failures
- october 2008 (6 months ago).
+ ABCL 0.15.0 fails 34 out of 21702 tests in the ANSI test suite
+ in interpreted and compiled modes, coming from ca 44 in the last
+ release.
+ As a measure of 'improvement achieved', the development team refers
+ to the number of failing tests in the Maxima test suite too.
+ ABCL 0.15.0 is able to run the test suite with 'only' ca 75 failing
+ tests, coming from ca 1400 failures around october 2008.
<br /><br />
ABCL's CLOS is slow and does not handle on-the-fly
redefinition of classes correctly. There is no support for the long
@@ -141,6 +177,7 @@
<ul>
<li>ANSI Common Lisp compliance tests</li>
<li>Maxima - Computer algebra system</li>
+ <li>AP5 - see <a href="http://ap5.com/">http://ap5.com/</a></li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
@@ -159,8 +196,8 @@
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070218045318.5111%40stephen">
performance issues</a> with versions of Java 1.6 prior to update 10.
To build ABCL, you'll need the full JDK; the JRE is not enough. <br />
- <em>Recent performance tests have shown Java 1.6 Update 10 to be as fast
- as Java 1.5.</em> </dd>
+ <em>Recent performance tests have shown Java 1.6 Update 10 (and newer)
+ to be as fast as Java 1.5.</em> </dd>
</dl>
</div>
Copied: public_html/staging/release-notes-0.15.shtml (from r11757, /public_html/release-notes-0.14.shtml)
==============================================================================
--- /public_html/release-notes-0.14.shtml (original)
+++ public_html/staging/release-notes-0.15.shtml Sat May 23 05:46:03 2009
@@ -21,6 +21,37 @@
<div style="float:left;width:80ex;margin-top:1cm">
+<h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.15</h2>
+<p>
+ <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b>
+</p>
+<dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm">
+ <dt>Fixed special bindings un-binding in compiled code for (local)
+ transfer of control using GO/RETURN-FROM</dt>
+ <dd>Special bindings now will get unbound in many more cases and much
+ more efficiently upon local transfer of control.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Reduced ANSI failures in both compiled and interpreted modes</dt>
+ <dd>MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ wasn't working correctly on symbol macros.
+ Multiple issues with DEFINE-SETF-EXPANDER, and others. See CHANGES.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Multiple JSR-233 (Java scripting) support fixes</dt>
+ <dd>See the logs for more: too much to summarize.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Compiler new feature</dt>
+ <dd>Support for COMPILE-ing functions with non-empty lexical environments -
+ which themselves are not being compiled.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Google App Engine</dt>
+ <dd>Don't break when being run on Google App Engine because 'os.arch'
+ isn't set.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL</dt>
+ <dd>CLtL2 primitive COMPILER-LET is now supported in the EXT package,
+ so is MACROEXPAND-ALL.
+ </dd>
+</dl>
+
<h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.14</h2>
<p>
<b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b>
@@ -87,7 +118,7 @@
<div class="check">
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict</a>
</div>
-<div style="float:right;font-size:10px;font-family:monospace">$Id: index.shtml 11358 2008-10-18 22:10:11Z ehuelsmann $</div>
+<div style="float:right;font-size:10px;font-family:monospace">$Id$</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Modified: public_html/staging/style.css
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--- public_html/staging/style.css (original)
+++ public_html/staging/style.css Sat May 23 05:46:03 2009
@@ -52,3 +52,9 @@
.check a:hover { font-weight:bold;
color:#000000;
text-decoration:underline; }
+
+.summary-header {
+ font-weight: bold;
+ color: white;
+ background-color: #369;
+ text-align: center }
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