Mixp

What is it?

Mixp is a collection of modules for Guile allowing access to the expat library by James Clark from Scheme programs.

The low-level module (mixp expat), originally written by Thierry Bézecourt, provides a Schemefied wrapper to the "libexpat" C library interface. The other modules build on it to provide abstractions and convenience procedures:

It is released under the GNU GPLv3+ along with a fully-indexed manual in texinfo format (i.e., the source for the online documentation).

News

Latest release: 0.9 (2021-12-16)

• Guile "auto-compilation" suppressed

  Env var ‘GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE’ has value "0" during both configure script operation and "make check". The Guile-BAUX programs also set this, so normally "make" should also be covered.

  The result: No on-the-fly compilation of .scm to .go files.

• configure script option ‘--with-expat’ has default

  You can use this option to specify a non-standard installation. Previously, it was required to be given since there was no default. Now, if not given, it defaults to the system Expat.

• configure script errors out if Expat not found

  If there is no usable Expat specified or found, the configure script now fails w/ message "Could not find the Expat library".

• testing upgraded to support Guile 2.2

  For "make check", Guile 2.2 had some issues grokking the iso-8859-1 encoding in test/x001, but that's now resolved.

• bootstrap/maintenance tools

  upgraded:

   Guile-BAUX 20211208.0839.a5245e7
   GNU gnulib 2021-12-10 21:54:54
   GNU texinfo 6.8
   GNU Automake 1.16.5
   GNU Autoconf 2.71
   GNU Guile 2.2.7

  as before:

   (none)

Hacking

Check out the project page on savannah (nongnu).

Donating

If you would like to support development of Mixp (and other Free Software), please visit my patronage page.

Copyright (C) 2011-2021 Thien-Thi Nguyen

Updated: 2021-12-16 12:09 UTC (source: NEWS-excerpt, GNUmakefile)