[PPL-devel] [Fwd: [SWIPL] Ann: SWI-Prolog 5.5.39]

[Roberto Bagnara]

Hi there,

one of the key features of the forthcoming release of SWI-Prolog is the support
for unbounded integers.  An investigation I conducted a while ago resulted
in the conclusion that supporting both versions of SWI (with bounded integers
and with unbounded ones) at the same time would be very difficult.
Since for our purposes unbounded integers are of crucial importance, we will
have to switch to the new version and abandon the old ones.  I will commit
the necessary changes to the repository during the weekend.  At the same
time I will upgrade all the Tinderbox build machines.  You are advised to
upgrade your machines as well, starting from Monday.
Cheers,

     Roberto


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SWIPL] Ann: SWI-Prolog 5.5.39
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:42:56 +0100
From: Jan Wielemaker <wielemak at science.uva.nl>
Organization: HCS, University of Amsterdam
To: prolog at science.uva.nl

Hi,

I've uploaded SWI-Prolog 5.5.39.  Besides the usual small stuff, there are
a few things worth mentioning:

  * If there are no unexpected problems, the next release will be in the
    week of December 19-23 and will be 5.6.0 (STABLE).

  * There is a new library clp/simplex.pl by Markus Triska dealing with
    linear programming problems.  Enjoy!

  * There is a new package called 'nlp' supposed to provide implementations
    and interfaces to C-libraries for comonly used algorithms in NLP and
    information retrieval.  The initial version provides Porter stem and
    Double Metaphone.

  * Fabien Todescato found a long standing bug in the kernel, causing a GC
    crash if a last-call optimised call calls an autoload predicate where
    loading the predicate starts a garbage collection.

	Enjoy --- Jan


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Prof. Roberto Bagnara
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