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Subject: GNU Mes 0.25 released
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<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
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We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.25!
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Although it's been only nine months since the previous release, this
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release represents 116 commits over two years by six people. This
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release brings RISC-V64-linux support.
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We are excited that the NLnet Foundation is sponsoring this work!
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What's next?
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Bringing the Full Source Bootstrap to NixOS. Full Guile compatible
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module support, and support for running Gash and Gash-Utils. Support
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for bootstrapping gcc-4.6.4, and a Full Source Bootstrap for
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armhf-linux, and riscv64-linux.
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Enjoy!
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* About
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GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the
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GNU System. It has helped to decimate the number and size of binary
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seeds that were used in the bootstrap of GNU Guix 1.0. Recently,
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version 0.24.2 has realized the first Full Source Bootstrap for Guix
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<https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/>.
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The final goal is to help create a full source bootstrap as part of
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the bootstrappable builds effort <https://bootstrappable.org> for any
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UNIX-like operating system.
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Mes + MesCC + Mes C Library can build a bootstrappable TinyCC
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<https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc> that is self-hosting. Using this
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bootstrappable-tcc and the Mes C library we can build an ancient
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version of the GNU tools triplet: glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1,
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gcc-2.95.3. This is enough to bootstrap Guix for i686-linux,
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x86_64-linux, armhf-linux and aarch64-linux.
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Mes was inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5 --
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John McCarthy page 13, Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
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Jeremiah Orians's Stage0 <https://github.com/oriansj/stage0>, a
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~500-byte self-hosting hex assembler.
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* Download
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git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git
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Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
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https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz
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https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig
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Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
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https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz
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https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mes/mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig
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Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mes-0.25.tar.gz
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mes-0.25.tar.gz
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[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
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.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
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and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
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gpg --verify mes-0.25.tar.gz.sig
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If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
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or that public key has expired, try the following commands to update
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or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
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gpg --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273
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Alternatively, Mes can be installed or updated using Guix:
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guix pull
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guix install mes
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* Changes in 0.25 since 0.24.2
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** Core
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*** Support for riscv64-linux.
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** Build
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*** Support M2-Planet build for x86_64-linux.
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*** Building with M2-Planet-1.11.0 is now supported.
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*** The requirement for M2-Planet's --bootstrap-mode was dropped.
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** Noteworthy bug fixes
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*** In the REPL, `include', `load', and `,use MODULE' now work.
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*** Using mes' `access' with R_OK now respects read permissions.
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*** On 64bit, displayed values are no longer truncated.
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*** On 64bit, MesCC now correctly supports 8-byte immediate values.
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*** MesCC now initializes struct fields to 0.
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*** The MesCC test suite passes with gcc >= 10
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An array overflow bug was fixed in `63-struct-cell.c'.
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Join bug-mes@gnu.org and #bootstrappable on irc.libera.chat for
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discussions.
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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
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11 Andrius Štikonas
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1 Efraim Flashner
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25 Ekaitz Zarraga
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1 Emily Trau
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63 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
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15 W. J. van der Laan
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