[j-announce] ABCL 0.0.6

[Peter G. <pe...@ar...>]

ABCL 0.0.6 is now available:

    http://armedbear.org/abcl.html

This is still just a source release. The README file in the root
directory of the distribution contains build instructions.

By request, build-abcl.lisp should now work with CLISP on both Linux
and Windows, as well as with SBCL, CMUCL, Allegro and LispWorks on
platforms they support.

In addition, I've verified (I think) that ABCL 0.0.5 can build ABCL
0.0.6 on both Linux and Windows.

Please let me know if you run into any further build issues.

If all goes well, I'll try to put together a binary distribution for
0.0.7.

There are a number of minor improvements and worthwhile bugfixes in
this release, but all of the major things that were wrong with ABCL
0.0.5 are still wrong with ABCL 0.0.6.

ABCL 0.0.6 fails 77 out of 21085 tests in the GCL ANSI test suite.

ABCL 0.0.6 works with CL-PPCRE, but requires CL-PPCRE-1.2.8. Older
versions of CL-PPCRE contained a bit of code that assumed equal fixnums
were EQ, which is not required to be true by ANSI, and which is not
generally true in ABCL.

Thanks for your support.

-Peter