Nausicaa
                          ========

	     Your library will be assimilated,
                 syntax errors are futile.



Topics
------

  1. Introduction
  2. License
  3. Installation
  A. Credits
  B. Bug reports
  C. Resources


1. Introduction
---------------

This is a distribution of Scheme language libraries for R6RS
Scheme  implementations.  Currently  it attempts  to support
Mosh,  Petite Chez, Racket,  Vicare (a  fork of  Ikarus) and
Ypsilon.


1.1 About 'Nausicaa'
--------------------

If  you  are  wondering   why  this  distribution  is  named
Nausicaa, you  may enjoy reading the manga  "Nausicaa of the
Valley of the  Wind" by Master Hayao Miyazaki,  or watch its
movie.

  You may also  find interesting what the crazy  guys of the
OpenSky project are trying to do:

       <http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/opensky/>


2. License
----------

Each project in this distribution has its own license notice
and copyright  assignment.  You must look  in the individual
directories for  the COPYING  file, and occasionally  at the
top of each  file, where there is a  specific license notice
and copyright assignment.

  Only Software Libre libraries are included.  Used licenses
are the  GNU General Public License, the  GNU Lesser General
Public License, the BSD  licenses, the BSD-like license, the
GNU Free Documentation License.


3. Installation
---------------

Nausicaa's  installation  infrastructure  supports only  GNU
systems.   This   means  Unix-like  systems   in  which  the
following common tools and packages are installed: GNU Bash,
GNU Make, GNU coreutils, GNU Find, GNU tar, Gzip, Bzip2.

  There are 4 sources of informations about the installation
of  a Nausicaa  project: the  individual,  project specific,
README files;  this README file; the  README.build file; the
README.rules file.

  To use the Nausicaa libraries you must install the package
of the Nausicaa/Scheme project.

  For your own safety,  take this advice: never, ever, drive
building  and  installation  of  packages  from  the  source
directory  of a  project; always  create a  subdirectory and
move into it:

   $ cd <source-directory-of-project>
   $ mkdir "=build"
   $ cd "=build"

then, usually, you should do:

   $ ../configure
   $ make
   $ make test
   $ make install

  If you have downloaded  the distribution directly from the
GitHub repository: there should  be no "configure" script in
the top directories of each project.  You can create them by
running "autoconf" in the  top directory of each project, so
the installation process becomes:

   $ cd <source-directory-of-project>
   $ autoconf
   $ mkdir "=build"
   $ cd "=build"
   $ ../configure
   $ make
   $ make test
   $ make install

GNU  Autoconf  can be  downloaded  from  the  GNU site  (see
resources).

  Notice that:

* The  library  source files  (.sls)  are  installed in  the
  directory selected  by the "pkglibdir"  Makefile variable;
  by  default this  variable is  set  to "$(libdir)/scheme",
  which  means that without  touching the  configuration the
  files will end up in:

     /usr/local/lib/scheme

  be sure to update accordingly the libraries search path of
  the Scheme implementation you are using.

* Currently,  among  the  supported Scheme  implementations,
  Mosh,  Racket,  Vicare  and  Ypsilon  can  optionally  use
  precompiled Scheme  libraries.  See the  README.rules file
  for details about precompilation.

* By default only documentation  in Info format is built and
  installed,  documentation  in HTML  format  is pruned;  to
  change  this pass  the '--enable-doc-html'  option  to the
  "configure" scripts.


A. Credits
----------

Scheme is  a statically scoped  and properly tail--recursive
dialect  of the  Lisp programming  language invented  by Guy
Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman.  It was designed to
have  an exceptionally  clear and  simple semantics  and few
different ways to form expressions.

  The "Revised^6 Report  on the Algorithmic Language Scheme"
gives  a defining  description of  the  programming language
Scheme.  The report is the work of many people in the course
of many  years.  Revision 6  was edited by  Michael Sperber,
R. Kent Dybvig, Matthew Flatt and Anton Van Straaten.

  Several  libraries depend  upon the  port to  R6RS  of the
Scheme  Requests For  Implementation  (SRFI).  The  original
SRFI code  is the work  of many authors, reference  of which
you can  find the at the  top of the source  code files; the
port to R6RS is the work of Derick Eddington.

  Mosh  is an  R6RS compliant  implementation of  the Scheme
programming  language.  It  is the  creation of  Taro Minowa
(higepon), kokosabu, herumi and .mjt.

  Petite   Chez   Scheme   is   an   also   R6RS   compliant
implementation  of the Scheme  programming language.   It is
produced by Cadence Research Systems.

  Racket  is distribution  of languages  and  libraries with
support for  R6RS.  It is the  work of many  people (see the
website).

  Vicare is  an experimental fork  of Ikarus.  Ikarus  is an
almost   R6RS  compliant   implementation   of  the   Scheme
programming  language.   It  is  the creation  of  Abdulaziz
Ghuloum.

  Ypsilon is an R6RS  compliant implementation of the Scheme
programming  language.   It is  the  creation of  Yoshikatsu
Fujita at LittleWing Company.

  The Nausicaa  distribution and installation infrastructure
is the creation of Marco  Maggi.  If this work exists, it is
because of the GNU Software tools he uses all the time.

  For other  credits notes  look in the  individual, project
specific, README files.


B. Bug reports
--------------

Bug reports are appreciated.   Register them using the issue
tracker a the GitHub site.


C. Resources
------------

The R6RS documents are available at:

                   <http://www.r6rs.org>

the SRFI documents are available at:

                <http://srfi.schemers.org/>

Ypsilon Scheme can be downloaded from:

	    <http://code.google.com/p/ypsilon/>

the LittleWing Company site is at:

 <http://www.littlewingpinball.com/contents/en/index.html>

Ikarus Scheme can be downloaded from:

       <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/>
               <http://launchpad.net/ikarus>

Mosh Scheme can be downloaded from:

	  <http://code.google.com/p/mosh-scheme/>

Petite Chez Scheme can be downloaded from:

		  <http://www.scheme.com/>

Racket can be downloaded from:

		 <http://racket-lang.org/>

Vicare Scheme can be downloaded from:

      <http://github.com/marcomaggi/vicare/downloads>
	   <http://github.com/marcomaggi/vicare/>

the GNU Software tools can be downloaded from:

		    <http://www.gnu.org>

  The  latest  version  of  the  Nausicaa  packages  can  be
downloaded from:

     <http://github.com/marcomaggi/nausicaa/downloads>

the home page of the Nausicaa project is at:

	<http://marcomaggi.github.com/nausicaa.html>

the latest revision of Nausicaa can be downloaded from:

    <http://github.com/marcomaggi/nausicaa/tree/master>


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