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.
+* 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.

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
 
-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

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