0.pre7.8:

	(The old CMU CL documentation is now available from
		<ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.)
	tweaked docs/.cvsignore so that if you like keeping the old
		CMU CL documentation in the old place, CVS doesn't
		pester you about it

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1a3a1bf..38ff4a8 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -823,6 +823,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. It's not clear
   how to make the compiler smart enough to fix this in general, but
   a workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
   it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. It's not clear
   how to make the compiler smart enough to fix this in general, but
   a workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.

+* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation,
+  is no longer part of the base system. The files which used to 
+  be in the doc/cmucl/ directory are now available as
+    <ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.
+?? lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
+  more systematic and consistent, converting C macros to inline
+  functions, systematizing indentation

 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc.

diff --git a/distclean.sh b/distclean.sh
index 9ba8508..33034f9 100644 (file)
--- a/distclean.sh
+++ b/distclean.sh
@@ -4,5 +4,13 @@
 # generated files but other things (e.g. customization files)
 # which shouldn't be in the distribution
 
 # generated files but other things (e.g. customization files)
 # which shouldn't be in the distribution
 

-rm customize-target-features.lisp
+# It's not unheard of to copy the old CMU CL docs into their
+# traditional sbcl-0.6.x place. If so, it shouldn't end up in
+# the distribution.
+rm -rf doc/cmucl
+
+# miscellaneous other customizations which shouldn't be propagated
+rm -rf customize-target-features.lisp
+
+# Fall through to ordinary cleanup.

 sh clean.sh
 sh clean.sh

diff --git a/doc/.cvsignore b/doc/.cvsignore
index cfbc1ef..43e9737 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/.cvsignore
+++ b/doc/.cvsignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-*.htm
\ No newline at end of file
+*.htm
+cmucl

diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README
index bfb2f08..375689d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/README
+++ b/doc/README
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
-SBCL is -- ahem! -- not completely documented at this point.
-What can I say? Help with documentation might not be refused.:-)
-
-There is a user manual in DocBook format, in user-manual.sgml.
-It's based on the CMU CL user manual, and some of its chapters
-aren't done, just notes that "this is similar to chapter such-and-such
-of the CMU CL user manual".
-
-The old CMU CL documentation can still be useful both for
-missing chapters of the user manual and for documentation of
-the internals of the system. It's available from SourceForge
-by anonymous ftp.
+SBCL is -- ahem! -- not completely documented at this point. What can
+I say? Help with documentation might not be refused.:-)
+
+There is a Unix man page, sbcl.1.
+
+There is a user manual in DocBook format, in user-manual.sgml. (In
+binary distributions, the compiled-into-HTML translations are also
+included.) Several free software packages are available to compile
+DocBook into HTML or other formats. The commands to use 'jade' to
+translate the manual into HTML are in make-doc.sh.
+
+Much of the documentation for supported extensions is in their Lisp
+doc strings. For example, to find out how to use the SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
+function in the SB-EXT package, you can execute
+  (documentation 'sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die 'function)
+or
+  (describe 'sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die)
+in SBCL.
+
+The user manual is incomplete, and some of its chapters are just notes
+that "this is similar to chapter such-and-such of the CMU CL user
+manual". The old CMU CL documentation can still be useful both for
+missing chapters of the user manual and for documentation of the
+internals of the system. It can be downloaded from
+<ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.

diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index 1103bab..bfb8e16 100644 (file)
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
 ;;; four numeric fields, is used for versions which aren't released
 ;;; but correspond only to CVS tags or snapshots.
 
 ;;; four numeric fields, is used for versions which aren't released
 ;;; but correspond only to CVS tags or snapshots.
 

-"0.pre7.7"
+"0.pre7.8"