[Info-gnuprologjava] GNU Prolog for Java 0.2.5 beta release

[Daniel Thomas]

The GNU Prolog for Java project is proud to announce the release of the
beta version of our 0.2.5 release. 
Prolog for Java is a java library (gnu.prolog) that allows Prolog code
to be executed from within java. This allows for the use of Prolog to
solve the problems which Prolog is particularly suited to while Java is
used for other components. 
It can be downloaded from http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuprologjava/ or by
ftp ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuprologjava/ and is licensed under the
LGPLv3. 
The project website is: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuprologjava/ 

The main change since alpha is that we now have a manual (though there
were 22 commits involving various other improvements see below).

NEWS since the last release: 

0.2.5 beta 2010-07-28
   Conforms to ISO/IEC DIS 13211-1 : 1995 bar two minor bugs.
   There is now a (texinfo) manual.
   The demo package now contains an example of the use of the API.
   The public key of the key signing key is in the sources.
   Term classes now have working .toString() functions (which use
TermWriter.toString(Term))
   The Inria test suite provides an easily extensible test suite for
testing standards 
     compliance.
   This supplements the vanilla test suite both of which can be found
here: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~deransar/prolog/suites.html
   NONISO features added:
       ensure_loaded/1 predicate can be used anywhere
       If ':- term' is used and term is not a directive then this will
be treated as 
         ':- intiailization(term)'.
       random(L) predicate evaluates to a random number i such that 0 =<
i < L
   GNU Prolog for Java is now licensed under the LGPLv3 rather than the
LGPLv2.
   Interpreter's context methods have been deprecated.
   The source now includes gnu.getopt
   The Interpreter#runOnce(Term) method added to simplify the case where
the
   user only wishes to get the first answer from Prolog.
   Added NumericTerm as an abstract parent of FloatTerm and IntegerTerm
   Two outstanding bugs in standards compliance are:
       #30568 (inria tests on findall's throwing of type_errors fails)
and
       #30335 (inria tests on arg's unification of variables inside the
compound term fail)
   Other bugs
       #30630 Deadlock may occur if multiple threads operate on the same
environment
       #30780 Unicode input breaks the parser (it gets stuck in an
infinite loop).
0.2.x
   Michiel Hendriks wrote many additional features and added support for
many more 
   predicates as well as doing a lot of work towards ISO Prolog part 1
compliance.
   This includes: get_time/1, stamp_date_time/3, date_time_stamp/2,
date_time_value/3,
   format_time/3, format_time/4, parse_time/2, parse_time/3, trace/0,
notrace/0,
   tracing/0, spy/2, nospy/1, nospyall/0, various predicates for
dialogs,
   java_to_string/2, java_classname/2, listing/0, listing/1, compare/3,
stacktrace/1,
   current_functor/2, uuid/1, uuid/2, uuid_compare/3, uuid_version/2,
uuid_variant/2
0.2.0 2009-03-04
   Various changes, bug fixes and additions.
   It now conforms to the "vanilla" test suite (with a few minor changes
to some tests).
   All ISO Prolog predicates are supported. char_conversion is
implemented but not used.
   Added support for tracing/spying predicates

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