Nausicaa is a distribution  of Scheme language libraries for
R6RS  Scheme  implementations.   Currently  it  attempts  to
support Ikarus, Larceny, Mosh and Ypsilon.

  Nausicaa/Scheme   is  the   core   package;  it   provides
foundation  libraries and  implements the  infrastructure of
the foreign functions interface.  It comes in two flavors:

* The  full  distribution,  with documentation  and  foreign
  functions    interface    included.    Its    installation
  infrastructure  requires a  GNU+Linux system  (for details
  see the "README.build" file).

* The pure Scheme distribution, includes only the sources of
  the libraries, ready to  be unpacked in their installation
  destination.

  The  latest  release  of  the Nausicaa/Scheme  package  is
available at:

     <http://github.com/marcomaggi/nausicaa/downloads>

the home page of the Nausicaa project is at:

        <http://marcomaggi.github.com/nausicaa.html>

development takes place at:

    <http://github.com/marcomaggi/nausicaa/tree/master>

the documentation is available on line:

     <http://marcomaggi.github.com/docs/nausicaa.html>

Notes for 2009-10-20 tag 0.1a0
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* This  is  the  first  public  and proper  release  of  the
  Nausicaa/Scheme package.  It  is an alpha quality release,
  meaning  that  bugs exists  and  the  feature  set is  not
  complete, but the libraries are usable.

* The  documentation  is  (to  the  best  of  my  knowledge)
  synchronised, with the exceptions of the (schelog) library
  (whose port is still to do) and the (format) library.

* The   (format)  library  needs   to  be   reorganised  and
  redocumented.

* The  (times-and-dates) library needs  to be  rewritten and
  redocumented.

However, I must chide you for continuing to use library names which
are not under a unique namespace.  I strongly encourage you (nay,
command you! :-) to make your libraries' names under a unique
namespace, e.g. (nausicaa ---), for the reasons I explained at [1].
E.g., what if a program needs to use your libraries which depend on
your (format) library and the program also needs to use someone else's
libraries which depend on their different (format) library?  It's not
possible because a program cannot use two different libraries both
named (format).  The libraries must have different names.  I don't
think you should be globally usurping the name (format).  To be fair,
everyone needs to avoid conflict by using unique namespaces.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/ikarus-users/msg/72866366fca45846

Thanks,