[Chicken-announce] CHICKEN 5.0.0 release candidate 3 available (forwarded)

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hello all,

The third release candidate for CHICKEN 5.0.0 is now available for
download:

https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2018/10/08/chicken-5.0.0rc3.tar.gz

The sha256sum of that tarball is:

237c88fcdd0d31f01923d9c5d0e4a564d22cdee98687a4e1daa2bc97d173e460

The list of changes since 4.13.0 is available here (which is the
same as that of 5.0.0rc2):

https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2018/10/08/NEWS

Quite a few issues have been fixed, especially with chicken-install
and quoting (most of those on Windows). For an overview of fixed
tickets since 5.0.0rc2, see the Trac page:


https://bugs.call-cc.org/query?status=closed&version=5.0.0rc2&milestone=5.0&group=status&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority

Please give this new release candidate a try and report your findings
to the mailing list. Here's a suggested test procedure:

$ make PLATFORM=<platform> PREFIX=<directory> install check
$ <directory>/bin/chicken-install -test awful

If you can, please let us know the following information about the
environment on which you test the RC:

Operating system: (e.g., FreeBSD 10.1, Debian 8, Windows 7 mingw-msys)
Hardware platform: (e.g., x86, x86-64, PPC)
C Compiler: (e.g., GCC 4.9.2, clang 3.6)
Installation works?: yes or no
Tests work?: yes or no
Installation of eggs works?: yes or no

Thanks in advance!

The CHICKEN Team