Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of ReleaseNotes/1.5

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Apr 5, 2010, 9:50:05 PM (11 years ago)

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rme

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work in progress

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+= Release Notes for Clozure CL 1.5 =
+
+== Supported Platforms ==
+Clozure CL 1.5 runs on the following platforms:
+   * Mac OS X 10.5 and later (PowerPC and x86)
+   * Linux (PowerPC and x86)
+   * FreeBSD 6.x and later (x86)
+   * Solaris (x86)
+   * Microsoft Windows XP and later (x86)
+
+The preferred way to get Clozure CL is via Subversion.  For example,
+to get CCL for Mac OS X on x86, one would run the following command
+from a shell prompt:
+
+{{{
+$ svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/openmcl/release/1.5/darwinx86/ccl
+}}}
+
+Versions for other platforms are available by changing the `darwinx86` to
+one of `linuxx86`, `freebsdx86`, `solarisx86`, `windows`, `darwinppc`, or
+`linuxppc`.
+
+Both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries are included with all versions.
+
+See also http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl/wiki/SystemRequirements.
+
+== Reporting Bugs ==
+Please use the Trac instance at  http://trac.clozure.com/ccl to review existing bug reports and to submit new ones.
+
+== Known Problems ==
+The 32-bit Windows lisp still doesn't run on 64-bit Windows.
+
+== Notable Changes ==
+There have been numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements;  here we call out
+a few that seem worth highlighting.
+
+The fasl file and image file versions have changed.
+
+Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is now the minimum operating system version for
+Macintosh systems.  The lisp kernel is build against the 10.5 SDK, so Snow Leopard
+users no longer have to do anything special to rebuild it.
+
+CL:RANDOM has been improved.
+It now uses the MRG321k3p generator described in
+P. L'Ecuyer and R. Touzin, "Fast Combined Multiple Recursive
+Generators with Multipliers of the form a = +/- 2^d^ +/- 2^e^",
+Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 2000,  683--689.
+This generator has a period of about 2^185^
+and its output has good statistical properties.
+
+=== Analyzing memory ===
+CCL:HEAP-UTILIZATION has grown some more options;  see the docstring.
+CCL:COLLECT-HEAP-UTILIZATION is the guts of HEAP-UTILIZATION, now sold separately.
+
+CCL:HEAP-IVECTOR-UTILIZATION lists the types and sizes of allocated heap ivectors (cf.
+MAKE-HEAP-IVECTOR).
+
+On Linux/x8664 systems, a number of utilities are available for post-mortem analysis
+of Unix core files produced from a lisp process.  See MemoryUtils for documentation.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+=== Cocoa IDE ===
+
+The format of the preferences files for the Cocoa-based IDE has changed.
+
+This will probably cause the following error message:
+{{{
+Error: Objective-C runtime exception:
+*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: non-keyed archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver
+}}}
+To solve it, go to ~/Library/Preferences/ and delete the preference files beginning with "com.clozure.Clozure".