From 94ae205a2250c94b9fb5cf209f3dbdf278bd6689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jjgarcia <jjgarcia>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:17:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Release announcement.

---
 ANNOUNCEMENT | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT
index 4ca0e9a89..3e8a6d170 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCEMENT
+++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ ECL 0.9d
 
 * Supported platforms:
 
-  - ECL now builds under Windows using MinGW-32.
+  - ECL now builds under Windows using MinGW-32 and Microsoft VC++
+    (the last port is a contribution from Goffioul Michael).
 
   - It is possible now both under OS/X and Microsoft Windows to build
     ECL as a shared library and to compile and load code on the fly.
@@ -106,6 +107,13 @@ ECL 0.9d
 
   - MULTIPLE-VALUE-{BIND,SETQ} produce now more economical forms.
 
+  - A separate pass over the functions is used to find out which ones
+    use a lexical environment, which functions are made into closures,
+    etc (This implied a much deeped rewrite of the compiler than what
+    these three lines seem to suggest).
+
+  - FLET and LABELS are now compiled by the same routine.
+
 * Errors fixed:
 
   - Bugs in the mechanism for automatically creating packages when
@@ -190,6 +198,12 @@ ECL 0.9d
   - The old CLX library has been replaced with the portable CLX
     library from the TELENT archive.
 
+  - New command line option, -q, makes the compiler quieter (by Julian
+    Stecklina).
+
+  - New function, SI:RUN-PROGRAM to spawn processes with redirected
+    input, output and error streams.
+
 * ANSI compatibility:
 
   - No symbol is exported from the CL package other than those specificied in
@@ -243,3 +257,12 @@ ECL 0.9d
     finally integrated and put together. By default, they are not
     compiled in, unless configured with "--with-cmu-format".
 
+  - When comparing floats with bignums or rationals, the float has to
+    be converted first to a rational number, or else the comparison
+    will be inaccurate.
+
+  - :PRINT-OBJECT is now supported in structures.
+
+  - FORMAT directives now accept bignums as arguments, though they
+    are truncated to most-{positive/negative}-fixnum.
+