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@science.uva.nl Organization: HCS, University of Amsterdam To: prolog@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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