S  M  L   /   N  J
                   1  1  0  .  6  0      N  E  W  S
			
                           November 9, 2006
                                WARNING
        This working version is believed to be stable, but
        we have not run our full regression-test suite.
  - HOME:
- http://www.smlnj.org/index.html
- FILES:
- http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.60/
Summary:
    Support for Mac OS X on Intel machines, new directory layout,
    subversion-based source repository, preliminary amd64 support
    in MLRISC and backend, new code generator tools
    (ml-ulex, ml-antlr).
Details:
  - MLRISC:
- 
    
      - support for amd64 added (not yet thoroughly tested)
 
- compiler:
- 
    
      - preliminary hook-up of amd64 backend
 
- runtime:
- 
    
      - worked around problem with signal delivery on Intel-based Macs
 
- ml-lpt (language processing tools):
- 
    
      - two new tools: ml-ulex, ml-antlr
- ml-ulex: lexer generator with unicode support
- ml-antlr: ANTLR-inspired LL(k) parser generator
- first public release; still "beta" quality
 
- source repository:
- 
    
      - the SML/NJ sources are now hosted at smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu
- the revision control system is now subversion
- the project name is "smlnj"
- source code available via anonymous subversion from
          svn://smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu/smlnj
- source code (directory-) tree has new layout
 
- scripts:
- 
    
      - scripts adjusted to deal with new directory layout
- three scripts for simplifying svn access added: 
 check out svn://smlnj-gforge.cs.uchicago.edu/smlnj/admin
          and put it on your shell's PATH
- use checkout-all.sh to get a fresh copy of the sources
- refresh-all.sh: perform svn update on each source (sub-)tree
- stat-all.sh: perform svn stat on each source (sub-)tree
- see HISTORY file for details
          on new layout