$usepop/CHANGES.txt (Part of Poplog system)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/latest-poplog/CHANGES.txt
See also
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/latest-poplog/news-and-changes.html
Aaron Sloman
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/
POPLOG CHANGES FOR VERSION V15.65-PRELINKED
10 Oct 2015
If you are reading this file you may or may not have a 'Prelinked' Poplog.
If the directory above this contains
../CHANGES_PRELINKED.txt
then this is a prelinked version.
Preliked poplog is installed using previously built basepop11, linked on a
system compatible with 32-bit linux. Necessary because since Fedora 22 (and
related distributions) linking 32 bit poplog on 64 bit linux caused problems.
But a previously linked version works, and allows construction of saved
images, etc.
11 Feb 2015
New saved image for download built, with the following changes:
Packages:
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
Dynamic linking options:
Mateusz Grotek reported problems linking 32-bit Poplog in 64-bit gentoo linux
The problem seems to have been the linking options for linux in
$popsrc/unixextern.p
The list of linking options was extended, and that appears to solve the
problem. If linking problems remain, please email pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk
10 Feb 2015
The poplog-dev mailing list has been disabled, though archives are still
viewable. For all comments, requests, etc. relating to poplog/pop11 please
now use pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk
Register as a user at
https://mailman.cs.bham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/pop-forum
8 Feb 2015
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
21 Oct 2014
See CHANGES in INSTALL/AREADME.txt
26 Sep 2012
Altered the script INSTALL_BHAM_LINUX_POPLOG so as to install
additional convenience lnks in addition to current_poplog
Now includes
ln -s $popversionmajor current-poplog
ln -s current-poplog/pop pop
ln -s current-poplog/bin bin
ln -s current-poplog/Poplib Poplib
So cd /usr/local/poplog/pop
can be used instead of
cd /usr/local/poplog/current-poplog/pop
and likewise for bin and Poplib directories.
25 Sep 2012
Documentation for change "27 Dec 2011 Changes to VED" below, finally
confirmed. Disable ved scrolling by default, since not all linux
xterm alternatives can cope.
Difference not normally noticeable with current speeds.
Added comments in vdscroll.p vdinitseq.p and vddeclare.ph in
$usepop/pop/ved/src
25 May 2012
Improved pre-checking of X11 libraries in the script
CHECK_LINUX_FACILITIES
thanks to suggestions from Peter Lewis
15 May 2012
Thanks to help from Peter Lewis replaced -m32-bit with -m32 in
$usepop/pop/src/syscomp/asmout.p
Needed for poplog to link on Arch linux.
4 May 2012
Made some changes in $usepop/pop/src/syscomp to allow linking and
compiling to be done on 64 bit linux for 32 bit poplog.
Added documentation file:
$usepop/pop/src/syscomp/AREADME.txt
Also had to change
$usepop/pop/com/get_archive_args
to use -m32, so as to allow mkXpw to work for 32 bit poplog
on 64 bit linux.
Changed $usepop/pop/extern/lib/mklibpop to work for 32 bit
poplog on 64 bi linux
19 Feb 2012:
Default pglink Would not link motif (libXm and libXext) on new version
of Ubuntu. This turned out to be due to new linker default on Ubuntu
but not included in Fedora. Modified $popsrc/syscomp/asmout.p
to alter the default flags in $popsys/poplink_cmnd so as to include
--no-as-needed (which makes no difference on Fedora, but ensures
that dynamic linking works properly on Ubuntu, e.g. as required for
Xved to include motif menus).
31 Dec 2011: Installed $usepop/pop/lib/ved/Veddebug.p
Previously in bham local directory. Modified version of
LIB veddebug. See LIB Veddebug for details.
(E.g. used in $usepop/pop/packages/vedlatex/auto/ved_jlp.p )
27 Dec 2011: Version 15.65 now available. pop_internal_version 156500
Reverted to old decimal format (v15.65, not v15.6.5, to avoid internal
complications).
A related version for 64-bit poplog, possibly older, is here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.63-amd64/CHANGES.txt
See also changes to packages:
$usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES-PACKAGES.txt (Part of poplog when downloaded)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/latest-poplog/CHANGES-PACKAGES.txt
27 Dec 2011 Changes to VED
A major change to Ved: the code for optimising screen refreshing
during scrolling part of the screen has been disabled.
It worked properly only in xterm windows. Various other console
windows did not support the optimsation properly,
e.g. urxvt (and its variants), and this caused corruption of the
editor window.
Disable ved scrolling by default, since not all linux xterm
alternatives can cope. Do this in
$usepop/pop/ved/src/vdinitseq.p
false -> terminal_can_scroll; ;;; overwriting other defaults
Add a new active variable (with updater) in $usepop/pop/ved/src/vdscroll.p
define active:1 ved_terminal_can_scroll();
to give users a chance to override default setting for terminal_can_scroll
Difference not normally noticeable with current speeds.
Added comments in vdscroll.p vdinitseq.p and vddeclare.ph in
$usepop/pop/ved/src
27 Dec 2011
There are now several more teach files in $usepop/pop/teach
Including some used with the new online poplog/pop11/ved/ai
tutorials on youtube:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/cas-ai/video-tutorials.html
23 Oct 2011
New Actions added to Poprulebase, in
$usepop/pop/packages/prb/lib/poprulebase.p
The new action types are ADDINSTANCE and TESTADDINSTANCE
HELP POPRULEBASE has been updated to mention both.
23 Oct 2011
Bug fixed in $usepop/pop/extern/lib/c_core.c
For linux version >= 3 the existing code won't work as linux may not
have minor version numbers any more.
23 Oct 2011
Teach primer has been updated. Now version 4. Also
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer.pdf
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer2.pdf
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer
23 Sep 2010
Installed new version of $popsrc/unixextern.p provided by
Joe Wood, designed to support dynamic linking of 64bit libraries
in 64bit Poplog.
25 Jun 2011
Changed default XVed font in
$usepop/Poplib/Xdefaults.poplog
from 9x15bold to
Xved*font:
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1
5 Sep 2010
Replaced temporary fix in $popexternlib referenced in item for
11th Aug below, with more principled fix suggested by Joe Wood.
This required modifying two files in pop/extern/lib
c_core.c
mklibpop
See $usepop/pop/extern/lib/AREADME.txt
12 Aug 2010
Started new version: V15.6.4
Fixed $usepop/pop/com/popenv* not to look first in /usr/X11R6/lib
Replaced some Poplog common lisp files with new files, provided
by Waldek Hebisch, as described in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/lisp-mods
A lot of teaching examples are listed here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/examples/
Some online introductory videos on poplog and pop11 are being
placed here (experimental still, as of August 2010):
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/tutorials
11 Aug 2010
Problem found running mklibpop on Fedora 13 to create libpop.a
$usepop/pop/extern/lib/mklibpop
Altered c_core.c in that directory temporarily
See $usepop/pop/extern/lib/AREADME.txt
1 Sep 2009
Hakan Kjellerstrand has started producing online information
about Poplog, especially Pop-11, including new tutorial examples.
See
"The Pop-11 programming language and Poplog environment"
http://www.hakank.org/webblogg/archives/001320.html
"Off topic: The Pop-11 programming language and Poplog environment"
http://www.hakank.org/constraint_programming_blog/2009/08/off_topic_the_pop11_programmin_1.html
http://www.hakank.org/poplog/
Includes Pop-11 models
Hakan also reported that LIB GA required the newdatafile
library, which was not included in the standard distribution.
This has now been merged with the latest version of LIB DATAFILE
(a procedure for storing datastructures in disc files and
restoring them later).
So LIB DATAFILE handles named procedures and simple closures
of named procedures, in addition to distinguishing arrays
organised by row and by column. See HELP DATAFILE
LIB NEWDATAFILE is now redundant. It simply loads DATAFILE
Some minor changes in
$usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
(Added two missing library files in teaching package:
ga.p and newsolver.p )
Added two new procedures for use with rc_graphic
LIB xwd
For dumping pop11 graphic window to file.
See HELP XWD
LIB rc_sleep
Autoloadable procedure for sleeping between steps in
drawing on the screen. Delay is determined by value of
rc_graphic_delay (default false). See HELP RC_SLEEP
This is now invoked by the drawing packages presented
in TEACH RC_GRAPHPLOT, so the variable rc_graphic_delay
can be used to control the speed of drawing graphs.
14 Aug 2009
Minor alterations
Changed the definition of procedure display in
$usepop/pop/lib/turtle/turtle.p
so as to print coordinates of turtle correctly.
Also had to fix LIB regions.p
Had to fix a number of broken teach and help files in
$usepop/pop/packages/teaching
Altered the file $usepop/pop/lib/lib/mkind.p so that it indexes
the turtle directory, which it used not to do because of a typo.
It also now indexes newc_dec in the packages directory.
These changes extend the scope of ENTER sourcefile, and the
procedure popindex, on which it depends. The indexes are created
by $usepop/pop/com/mkind, which runs LIB mkind
TEACH SEEPICS added, summarising TEACH SEEPICTURE
10 Aug 2009
TEACH TEACHNUMS
Another new teach file, introducing the problem of how to
represent numbers and operations on numbers as lists and operations
on lists. (Aimed at young learners).
A section on support for teaching has been added to
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html
namely
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html#teaching
7 Aug 2009
See last item about LIB SUPER. As there does not seem to be any
tutorial introduction to the use of the library, a partial
tutorial has been added: TEACH SUPER_EXAMPLE.P
Also online here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/teach/super_example.p
6 Aug 2009
Hakan Kjellerstrand reported an obscure problem in LIB SUPER
that stopped some of the examples working. This has been fixed
by modifying the definitions of foreach and forevery. See
LIB SUPER, HELP SUPER, HELP WHICH
5 Aug 2009
pop_internal_version now changed to 156301
A problem with Ved's error handling has been fixed. At one point
Ved was altered to print syntactic (compile time) errors only on the
status line. To get round this a library newvederror was added.
However subsequent changes in poplog caused that not to work
properly -- it produced spurious mishaps. The following changes
have now been made
1. $usepop/pop/com/mkstartup has been changed so that it no
longer compiles newvederror.
2. The file $usepop/pop/ved/src/vddoit.p has been altered.
A new global variable vederrs_on_status controls whether
syntactic (compile time) error messages are put on the
status line or in the output file when compiling from a
ved buffer. The default is false, i.e. don't put error
messages on the status line. The problem with messages on
the status line is that they disappear as soon as you type
anything.
3. The file vddevio.p has been altered. The updater of the
active variable ved_chario_file accepts true as a value
instead of causing an error.
The file $usepop/pop/packages/vedutils/lib/newvederror.p has
never worked properly and is to be withdrawn. Meanwhile it prints a
warning message if compiled.
21 Jul 2009
Added to $popcom, a shell script to create a saved image for
eliza with speech synthesisers, i.e
$popcom/mkeliza
17 Jul 2009
[1] Added two utilities for invoking a speech generator
Using espeak
pop/lib/auto/speak_espeak.p
Using flite
pop/lib/auto/speak_flite.p
[2] For now both have documentation only in the code. Each can
handle a sentence in various formats (e.g. string, list of words
or strings). The program using espeak has the ability to vary
the speed of speaking.
Added two new startup scrips that reside in this directory,
which will normally be the $usepop directory
poplog.sh
for users of bash (and possibly ksh, or sh)
poplog
for users of csh or tcsh
Each script must be run in this directory, which can be useful
for testing, no matter where the directory is located, unlike
the scripts bin/poplog and bin/poplog.sh created at installation
time with the installation directory 'hardwired' into the
scripts.
See also the creation script: INSTALL/CREATE_SCRIPTS
The poplog.sh script and poplog script can be used in one of two
ways, namely either RUN with a poplog command or SOURCED without.
If RUN with a command the effects are the same, e.g.
poplog.sh xved
poplog xved
Both run xved, with all the environment variables set
poplog.sh pop11 +clisp
poplog pop11 +clisp
Both run poplog common lisp, with all the environment
variables set
If SOURCED, the script should not be given an additional
argument.
source poplog.sh
can be run by a user of bash to set the environment
variables for poplog. After that poplog commands can
be given without any prefix, e.g.
pop11
prolog
xved myprog.p
source poplog
can be run by a user of tcsh or csh to set the
environment variables for poplog. After that poplog
commands can be given without any prefix, e.g.
pop11
prolog
xved myprog.p
4 Jul 2009
Moving documentation to a separate directory tree, whose
contents are to be linked back. That way the tree can be
shared with other versions of poplog. This includes
documentation in $usepop/pop/packages, though I am not sure
that's the right thing to do.
See also $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
3 Jul 2009
Removed $usepop/pop/packages/contrib (Saves about 8 MB)
Downloadable from
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/packages/contrib.zip
29 Jun 2009
Began construction of v15.63
Replacing all special characters from poplog documentation using
stripvedfile ($usepop/pop/lib/lib/stripvedfile.p) to support users
who do not wish to learn to use Ved/XVed
20 Feb 2009
Two changes to popvision, described in
$usepop/pop/packages/popvision/README.bham
popvision/lib/Xcolour_to_rgb.p
added directory '/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt'
to Xcolour_to_rgb_filelist
popvision/lib/sunrasterfile.p
Installed Jack Hollingworth's fix for updater
of sunrasterfile for use on little-endian machines.
2 Dec 2008
Installed changes designed by Waldek Hebisch to enable poplog to
run without use of 'setarch' on linux with security settings.
Source files altered:
$popsrc/amain.s
$popsrc/initial.p (just to change version)
$popexternlib/c_core.c
Altered installation scripts so that they no longer test for
'setarch' requirement.
For other minor changes see packages/CHANGES.txt
20 Jun 2008
In LIB VED_DIRED
Commented out the default key settings using vedsetkey, because
(a) they caused autoloading errors, and (b) they could interfere
with other uses of ^X in Ved commands.
See HELP * DIRED
5 Jun 2008
Copied latest version of packages directory to amd64 poplog
Rebuilt saved images
5 May 2008
Minor change to vedlatex findcites
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
1 May 2008
Minor change to lib popmatlab, to make HELP popmatlab work
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
31 Mar 2008
Another minor change to lib findcite.p, described in
$usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
27 Feb 2008
Minor change to lib findcite.p, described in
$usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
7 Feb 2008
Altered $usepop/pop/ved/src/vdfiles.p
to avoid annoying bug: ved would not recognize that an existing
file was being re-edited.
4 Feb 2008
Altered version number to v15.6102
32-bit Poplog
Altered startup demos to work properly with setarch when
necessary. For some reason alias definitions were not imported
from sourced bash files.
Added documentation for ved_highlight for simple highlighting of
text files, and made the precise highlight command to be used
user-definable.
See REF * ved_highlight
Added command $popsys/popsetarch for running commands
with the 'setarch' prefix, e.g. things like pglink, pglibr
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
25 Dec 2007
Modified the instructions for Ubuntu users in here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.61
Modified the
CHECK_LINUX_FACILITIES
script to draw attention (if necessary) to the instructions on
the poplog web site for installing required instructions for
Ubuntu users in here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.61
Made the poplog startup scripts and some of the system scripts
use 'bash' instead of 'sh', as the latter is linked to 'dash'
not bash on Ubuntu, which can cause problems.
22 Nov 2007
Added autoloadable file LIB ved_highlight
$usepop/pop/lib/ved/ved_highlight.p
ENTER highlight
Goes through the current file underlining all the syntax
words apart from brackets and punctuation symbols.
This can be undone using ENTER strip
01 Oct 2007
Tidied up $popsrc/unix-dir.p
Changed pop_internal_version to v15.6101 in $popsrc/initial.p
29 Sep 2007
Installed new version of $popsrc/unix_dir.p with changes provided
by Waldek Hebisch to overcome problem accessing current directory
reported in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS
18th Feb 2004
Also rebuilt basepop11 and corepop in $popsys
Cleaned up $usepop/pop/packages/com
11 Sep 2007
Altered $usepop/INSTALL/poplog2.sh and $usepop/INSTALL/poplog2
(used to create $usepop/bin/poplog.sh and $usepop/bin/poplog,
respectively) so that they do a more sensible check whether to
use existing $poplib, find ~/Poplib or ~/poplib, or use ~ if
home directory contains init.p or vedinit.p and otherwise
default to $usepop/Poplib
The scripts are also altered to test whether to use setarch or
not to execute commands.
10 Sep 2007
Altered $popcom/popenv and $popcom/popenv.sh NOT to set poplib
to default to ~
Some minor glitches in the installation process have been fixed,
by editing the main install script.
$popsrc/syscomp/os_comms.p has been altered to generate a
'bash' script rather than a 'sh' script for re-linking
See also
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes
14 Apr 2007
Copied stuff from Web eliza to packages/teaching/lib/elizaprog.p
11 Apr 2007
Now version 15.61
New install mechanism, including get-and-install-scripts
new $popexternlib/c_core.c allows mklibpop to run on
recent versions of gcc
patches for Lesstif as described in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS
minor changes for ved and other utilities in
$usepop/pop/packages
(Still work to be done cleaning up packages and fixing
headers)
29 Mar 2006
Altered ved_lockfile so that the revised version of discappend
checks for locks only if given a string argument.
29 Mar 2006
Altered POPVISION: removed '-l' flag from exload commands
straight_hough.p
canny.p
float_arrayprocs.p
lapack.p
This seemed to be needed to prevent the following warning in recent
versions of linux
;;; Warning: can't open shared object /usr/lib/libm.so (Inappropriate ioctl for
;;; device)
29 Mar 2006
Altered RCLIB. Added rc_get_coords_from to allow a method like
rc_get_coords to be used without warping the mouse pointer.
See HELP RCLIB/rc_get_coords_from
29 Mar 2006
Fixed documentation flaw in REF objectclass
There were two entries for wrapper_kernel. One of them should have
been labelled 'wrapper_invoker'.
1 Jan 2006
More minor tidying up of packages and a small change to rclib.
See $usepop/pop/packages/rclib/help/rclib_news
11 Jul 2005
Slightly tidied up some of the code and documentation in
pop/packages/vedmail
27 May 2005
Fixed the script $usepop/bin/demos/simagent-demo to use
'compile' instead of 'load', because the latter can have
trouble reading in path names that include things like
'-05-', which get read as '-5-'
23 Feb 2005
Undid changes in two files made in 1999 to make them work with
Lesstif. Changes no longer needed.
pop/x/pop/lib/Xm/xmTextWidget.p
pop/x/pop/lib/Xm/xmTextFieldWidget.p
19 Feb 2005
Added lib generate_category to pop/packages/teaching/lib
(Forgot to include it previously. It is needed for
teach storygrammar, and used to be in $local/lib)
12 Feb 2005
Bug and Fix reported by Waldek Hebisch
Currently Poplog can handle at most 255 lvars. However it seems
that there is no check for tha limit in the incremental compiler
(there is a check in popc). AFAICS this couses the lisp problem
posted in comp.lang.pop
Below a patch that implement the check:
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 vm_conspdr.p
--- src/vm_conspdr.p 10 Feb 2005 20:28:24 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ src/vm_conspdr.p 12 Feb 2005 17:53:46 -0000
@@ -1177,6 +1177,9 @@
Incr_lab_refcount(asm_exit_lab);
+ if _Nframewords _gr _16:FF then
+ mishap(0, 'PROCEDURE STACK FRAME TOO LARGE');
+ endif;
;;; first instruction creates stack frame on entry
Cons_inst(I_CREATE_SF, 1) :: codelist -> codelist;
17 Jan 2005
Contents of $usepop/INSTALL revised,
with new linking/rebuilding scripts
See $usepop/INSTALL/INSTALL.txt
Moved $usepop/man/bin to $usepop/bin
Changed default $poplocal to be $poplogroot, i.e.
the directory above $usepop
Moved $local/setup/Poplib to $usepop/Poplib
Contains default Xdefaults.poplog, init.p,
vedinit.p and others.