pre0.9.9-50 (was Re: mingw32 build feedback)

Rudy Taraschi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> !if (1 == register_hook ("startup_hook","identity->retrieve_default"))
>    error ("identity.sl: register_hook (startup_hook)");
>
> Again, if I remove the "1 ==" , I get no error.  Strange.

I rewrote hooks.c, mainly because I wanted to support function
references instead of strings, e.g.,

   private define foo ()
   { ... }
   
   () = register_hook ("some_hook", &foo);

  [I would have preferred register_hook to throw an exception rather
  than returning a status value.  But I felt that it was better to
  maintain compatibility with the previous behavior.]

Perhaps your specific problem will go away with version pre0.9.9-50.
Note: if you compile this version, you will also need to "install" it.
This is because pre0.9.9-50 installs a file called called slrn.sl in
$prefix/share/slrn/slang/, and will refuse to run unless it can load
that file during startup. 

Also note the change in the location of the optional global slrn.rc
config file from $prefix/etc/ to $prefix/etc/slrn/.

My apologies to those who have released patches against pre0.9.9-43. I
would like to address the outstanding bugs and installation issues
before I add new features.  And now that the interpreter has been
introduced at startup, I believe that more powerful customizations are
now possible.  To be clear, I would rather see new features
implemented at the interpreter level, and hooks added to C code where
needed.

Thanks,
--John

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