guile/guile-www README

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    guile
Changes by:     Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>       01/11/16 20:30:37

Modified files:
        guile-www      : README 

Log message:
        Rewrite.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/guile/guile-www/README.diff?cvsroot=OldCVS&tr1=1.1&tr2=1.2&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: guile/guile-www/README
diff -u guile/guile-www/README:1.1 guile/guile-www/README:1.2
--- guile/guile-www/README:1.1  Mon Jun 16 19:17:22 1997
+++ guile/guile-www/README      Fri Nov 16 20:30:37 2001
@@ -1,66 +1,15 @@
-This is an alpha release of the Guile WWW library, version 1.0.
+This is version 1.0 of the Guile WWW library, a set of Guile Scheme
+modules to facilitate HTTP, URL and CGI programming.
 
-Roadmap:
-
-The (www http) library includes some support for navigating HTTP
-connections.  http:open, http:request and http:get may be used for
-opening connections and making HTTP requests; http:make-message,
-http:message-body and http:message-header may be used to
-manipulate HTTP messages.  Support is planned for the full
-HTTP/1.1 protocol, including cookies and persistent connections.
-
-(www url) provides url:parse for parsing a URL into its component
-parts, and the selector functions url:scheme, url:host, url:port
-and url:path for selecting individual components of a parsed URL.
-For individual components that may have been URL-encoded in
-transit, url:decode translates a string into its raw (unencoded)
-form.
-
-(www cgi) provides some functions helpful in writing CGI scripts
-painlessly.  The focus is on scripts to process interactive forms.
-cgi:init reads any form data and initializes a CGI environment.
-cgi:form-data? determines whether any form data has been returned
-by a browser for processing.  cgi-value returns the value
-associated with a form variable, and cgi-names and cgi-values
-return all of the names and values present in the current form.
-
-(www main) provides www:get, which decodes a URL and invokes the
-appropriate protocol handler for retrieving the desired object.
-It is intended to be a generic interface useful for retriving data
-named by any URL.
-
-wwwcat is an example script of how www:get and other functions
-might be used by a Guile application.
-
-A generic guide to hacking on Guile software follows.
-
-Tim Pierce
address@hidden
-
-Hacking It Yourself ==================================================
-
-As distributed, the Guile WWW library needs only a Unix system to build
-and install.  However, its makefiles, configuration scripts, and a few
-other files are automatically generated, not written by hand.  If you
-want to make changes to the system (which we encourage!) you will find
-it helpful to have the tools we use to develop it.  They are the
-following:
-
-Autoconf 2.12 --- a system for automatically generating `configure'
-       scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a
-       program would like to use.  Available in
-       "ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu";.
-
-Automake 1.1p --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
-       conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards.  The
-       nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
-       dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
-       Makefile dependencies.  Available in
-       "ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey";.
-
-libtool 0.9d --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
-       on various systems to produce shared libraries.  Available in
-       "ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu";.
-
-You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
-different.
+  COPYING      -- license
+  INSTALL      -- how to build and install guile-www
+  AUTHORS      -- who did what
+  NEWS         -- list of user visible changes
+  ChangeLog    -- detailed list of changes
+  *.scm                -- the Guile Scheme modules
+  doc/         -- guile-www.info and texinfo source
+  contrib/     -- contributions
+
+This package is maintained by the Guile developers.
+Please send bug reports to <address@hidden>
+and other correspondance to <address@hidden>.