[Jscheme-user] New JScheme Release coming soon

[Timothy J. H. <tim...@ma...>]

JScheme users!

We are preparing a new release of JScheme.

There are no major changes to the core language, but we've
been working on making the jscheme.sourceforge.net website
more useful.

  The main changes are:

1. A new look for the webpages
    (You can get a preview at
                http://jscheme.sourceforge.net/jscheme/main.html
      for a  version which is running a servlet, you can visit
                http://quine.cs-i.brandeis.edu:8080/jscheme   main.html
      but this link is just a temporary link and may be moved elsewhere 
soon)

2. A new CVS subtree "contrib" that contains useful applications of 
JScheme
    we currently have two such contributed codebases

      a. jswebapp -- the code supporting Scheme servlets and applets
             with several demos (including a little database-backed wiki
             that runs out of the box!)

      b. ia -- some sample Interval Arithmetic programs that give 
examples
          of mixing Scheme and Java code

  3. An "ext" subtree that contains 3rd party jars, in particular it 
contains the
       key jars for running jetty and the jars needed in the webapp to 
send mail,
       read multi-part forms, etc. README files in these folder explain 
the licenses
       of the 3rd party sources. These will allow us to start a jetty 
server from
      inside JScheme (provide those jars are in the classpath)

  4. Some scripts (in src/build) including

     a. start-server.sh  -- a script for starting a jetty server running
         the jscheme distribution as a webapp

     b. secure.sh  - a script for starting a jetty server with a fairly 
strict security policy
          (in server.policy) that does not allow the server to access 
the file system outside
          of the jscheme folder ...
         This one runs the jscheme/contrib/jswebapp/jscheme webapp on 
port 8088

     c. build-contrib.sh - a script for generating all of the new 
webpages from their
          JScheme servlet sources, as well as creating all of the zip 
files needed in the website.

The public CVS is about 1 day behind the developer's CVS so you won't 
be able to access
the most recent changes (for secure servers) until tomorrow, but if 
anyone has feedback
about how to improve the site design, we'd be happy to hear from you!

If any JScheme users would like to have same-day non-write access to 
the CVS repository
send me mail and I'll look into adding you as non-write access 
developers using the CVS
Access Control Scripts (cvsacls)...

---Tim---