ANN: Arctic Repository 1.1

[Aaron W. Hsu]

I am pleased to announce the availability of Arctic Repository version
1.1. This version comes with some nice changes and improvements to the
existing libraries, as well as the addition of some new ones that I hope
people will find very useful.

You can find the latest tarball(s) at

<gopher://gopher.sacrideo.us/1arcrepo>

Which also includes a README and ChangeLog. The Changes from version 1
to 1.1 have been included below. Thank you, and please send your
comments and questions!

Aaron W. Hsu
arc...@sacrideo.us

Changes from Version 1 to Version 1.1:

Highlights:

* Authorize.NET Support
* Better Build System
* New Foreign Type framework
* Better URL Query String handling libraries
* SXML->HTML convenience
* Improvements to modlisp and sockets.
* Improvements to Scheme Concurrent ML

Added Files:

* arcfide/authorize.net/

This contains a set of modules for working with Authorize.NET
Payment Gateways.

* arcfide/authorize.net/arb.nw

A module for Authorize.NET Automatic Recurring Billing

* arcfide/building.nw

A library for building programs with a set of dependencies.

* arcfide/errno.nw

A library that provides access to errno.

* arcfide/ffi-bind/types.chezscheme.nw

A set of basic foreign types for Chez Scheme.

* arcfide/noweb_make.mk

Better building for

* arcfide/query-strings.nw

Implement a new interface on Oleg's Query code.

* arcfide/sxml2html.ss

Program to make development in SXML easier.

Changes to Existing files:

arcfide/Makefile
arcfide/doc/Makefile

* Improvements to document generation
* Improvements to the general build procedure

arcfide/ffi-bind.nw

* Generates better C names when building foreign constants.
* New syntax for defining primitive foreign types
* New syntax for defining foreign C-like structures.

arcfide/modlisp.nw

* Uses the new query-string code.
* Uses the improved sockets paradigm.

arcfide/sockets.nw

* Better errno handling
* Socket Options
* Documentation improvements and better integer handling
* Most of the Chezisms have been removed
* get-address-info has been improved to be more natural to use
* Now uses explicit foreign type definitions instead of ad hoc
bytevector hackery.
* The internet address handling has been altered and improved.
- string->ipv4 is now exported.
- string->internet-address now handles ip addresses without
ports.

riastradh/scheme-cml/*

* Scheme CML has been improved and upgraded to a more recent
version, with better and nicer frameworks

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