RFS: gambc (Gambit-C Scheme Interpreter/Compiler)

["Kurt B. Kaiser" <kbk@shore.net>]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gambc".

* Package name    : gambc
  Version         : 4.0~b20-1
  Upstream Author : Marc Feeley <gambit@iro.umontreal.ca>
* URL             : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/
* License         : LGPL or Apache v 2
  Section         : devel

It builds these binary packages:
gambc      - Scheme interpreter and compiler
gambc-doc  - Documentation for the Gambit-C interpreter and compiler
libgambc4  - Shared Library for the Gambit-C interpreter and compiler
libgambc4-dev - Header file and link for the Gambit-C shared library

The package is linda and lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 283299

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gambc
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gambc/gambc_4.0~b20-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

-- 
Kind regards
 Kurt B. Kaiser

Gambit-C release 4 includes a Scheme interpreter and a Scheme compiler
which can be used to build standalone executables.  Because the
compiler generates portable C code it is fairly easy to port to any
platform with a decent C compiler.

The Gambit-C system conforms to the R4RS and IEEE Scheme standards.
The full numeric tower is implemented, including: infinite precision
integers (bignums), rationals, inexact reals (floating point numbers),
and complex numbers.  Gambit-C supports a number of extensions to the
standards including:

 - an optimizing compiler
   - with several powerful transformations (automatic function inlining,
     partial evaluation, etc)
   - that generates properly tail-recursive portable C code
 - a scalable thread system that can handle millions of concurrent threads
 - an I/O system fully integrated with the thread system that supports
   - regular files
   - ttys (terminals and serial ports)
   - sockets (tcp-client and tcp-server)
   - directories
   - processes
   - pipes
 - an infix syntax extension (SIX) that allows mixing code in the
   standard prefix syntax with code in a C-like syntax
 - the following SRFIs:
    - SRFI 0 (Feature-based conditional expansion construct)
    - SRFI 4 (Homogeneous numeric vector datatypes)
    - SRFI 6 (Basic String Ports)
    - SRFI 8 (RECEIVE: Binding to multiple values)
    - SRFI 9 (Defining Record Types)
    - SRFI 18 (Multithreading support)
    - SRFI 21 (Real-time multithreading support)
    - SRFI 22 (Running Scheme Scripts on Unix)
    - SRFI 23 (Error reporting mechanism)
    - SRFI 27 (Sources of Random Bits)
    - SRFI 39 (Parameter objects)
 - a REPL/debugger with
    - a continuation inspection facility (i.e. "backtrace")
    - a single-stepping mode
    - error messages with location of error (file, line, and column number)
    - emacs compatible line-editing with history
 - very efficient bignum implementation
 - a foreign function interface for C
 - a memory management system that grows and shrinks the heap based on
   the program's needs
 - a linker that builds standalone executables and shared libraries
 - dynamic loading of compiled modules and libraries (supported on many
   platforms)
 - Unicode support for characters, strings, I/O and source code
 - object finalization
 - pretty printing
 - keyword objects
 - optional and keyword parameters (with the syntax and semantics of DSSSL)
 - configurable reader with control over case sensitivity
 - write/read invariance of symbols, e.g. (string->symbol "B;123") => |B;123|
 - write/read invariance of floating point numbers
 - unhygienic macros
 - and many other things!