Guile version 0.001 =================== This module provides an interface to the Gnu Guile system. You can find out more about Guile at: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html. Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language. "Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman." You can find this quote in the language definition for Scheme here: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html This module is being developed in order to support the development and usage of an Inline::Guile module. The intention is to allow Perl programmers to intermix Perl and Guile code in their programs and modules. DEPENDENCIES This module has two rather aggressive requirements: 1) Perl 5.6.1+ I'll eventually test against older Perl versions but for now I'm only working with the latest and greatest. 2) Guile 1.5.0+ At the time of this writing Guile 1.5.0 hasn't even been released yet. You can only get it from CVS. Details can be found at: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/anon-cvs.html I don't think my module will ever work with older Guile versions. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install LICENSE Guile : A Perl binding to the GNU Guile Interpreter. Copyright (C) 2001 Sam Tregar (sam@tregar.com) This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this module. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this module, in the file ARTISTIC. If not, I'll be glad to provide one. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA