The SLIB Portable Scheme Library

Current Version	Released	Terms
3b2	2009-08-02	Free

SLIB is a portable library for the programming language Scheme. It provides a platform independent framework for using packages of Scheme procedures and syntax. As distributed, SLIB contains useful packages for all Scheme implementations. Its catalog can be transparently extended to accomodate packages specific to a site, implementation, user, or directory.

SLIB supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK 3.0, Gambit 4.0, Guile, JScheme, Kawa, Larceny, MacScheme, MIT/GNU Scheme, Pocket Scheme, RScheme, scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCM Mac, scsh, sisc, Stk, T3.1, umb-scheme, and VSCM.

Documentation includes a manifest, installation instructions, and coding standards for the library. Each library package is documented.

SLIB, Guile, Kawa, MIT/GNU Scheme, and SCM are GNU packages.

News

Version v4.1 of PLT Scheme (DrScheme and MzScheme) does not run any version of SLIB.

From Clemens Fischer: html4each.scm (htm-fields): Value always is string.
From Sarah V. Jaffer: prec.scm: Rewrote to make thread-safe; fluid-let variables replaced with `dyn' argument to most procedures.
From Andrea Girotto: kawa.init (scheme-implementation-version): Update for Kawa-1.9.3.
From Adam Sampson: Makefile (install): Fixed DESTDIR use.
From Aubrey Jaffer: prec.scm (prec:parse): Removed input newline flushing. Added initial-column argument.; html4each.scm (htm-fields): Treat DTDs like comments. Fixed handling of closing tags. Corrected documentation.; qp.scm (qp): Don't add newlines when *qp-width* is #f.; trace.scm (debug:trace-procedure): Increased indent increment to 2; wrap at column 31 so that depths 16 to 31 are offset.; sisc.init (syncase:eval, syncase:load): Added.; In SISC (1.16.6), the second argument to 'record-constructor' is not optional. Second arguments added to calls in SLIB.; mitscheme.init(system): Now called run-shell-command.; (print-call-stack): Added dummy definition for trace.; guile.init (list->array): Redefine to take 3 arguments.; (vector->array, array->vector): Define if missing.; (implementation-vicinity): Thomas Bushnell points out that %site-dir mashes all slibcat for all versions together. %library-dir (since Guile-1.6) is the versioned directory.; (library-vicinity): Last resort changed to "/usr/share/slib/".

More in SLIB_ANNOUNCE.txt.

Quick Start

x86 MS-Windows: Obtain slib-3b2-1.exe (1.1.MB) and run.
GNU/Linux with RPM: Obtain slib-3b2-1.noarch.rpm (590.kB) and install.
Any: Obtain slib-3b2.zip (860.kB), and install.

Documentation

SLIB Development

Savannah: CVS Repository slib/slib
Development Snapshot slib.zip (800.kB)
SLIB discussion mailing list

Volunteer opportunities

Augment dft.scm to work efficiently on non-power-of-two sized arrays.

Fix this line in "slib.spec" (for building RPM) which no longer works:
%{_mandir}/man1/slib.1.gz

Related Software

SLIB-PSD portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor): psd1-3.tar.gz (62.kB)
SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB.

Miscellany

Graphing example.
Color-Scheme
HTML labyrinth of a SLIB relational database
Why relational database? Database Manifesto.
SLIB has a reference implementation of Metric Interchange Format:
Representation of numerical values and SI units in character strings for information interchanges
FTP Links to SLIB and related software from this site and mirrors.
htmls.zip, a collection of these html documentation files (600.kB)

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