doc: Release update.

* HACKING: Update.
* INSTALL: Update.
* NEWS: Update.
* README: Update.
* doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.17: New file.

HACKING

@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ mes.c.
 ** TODO
 *** release 0.x, unsorted
   - upstream mes-boot to GuixSD.
-  - add full source gcc-4.7 package build.
   - replace GuixSD bootstrap for x86.
   - replace bootstrap utils (with gash?): flex, bash, bzip2,
     coreutils, diffutils, gawk, grep, gzip, make, sed, tar.
@@ -102,6 +101,7 @@ mes.c.
   - add x86_64, replace GuixSD's bootstrap binaries for x86_64.
   - more architectures (does GuixSD require this, i.e. before 1.0?).
 ** DONE
+*** 0.17 GNU Mes is now an official GNU project and bootstraps gcc-4.7.4.
 *** 0.16.1 Mes now has info docs and installs ootb on Debian buster/testing.
 *** 0.16 Mes Lib C now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.1.0.
 *** 0.15: MesCC now has a libc+gnu that supports compiling binutils-2.14, gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.2.5.

INSTALL

@@ -48,17 +48,17 @@ similar way.
 
 * Bootstrap build
 
-The bootstrap build is being developed in GuixSD, see
+The bootstrap build is being developed in Guix, on wip-bootstrap, see
-https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/blob/wip-bootstrap/gnu/packages/mes.scm
+http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/mes.scm?h=wip-bootstrap
 
 ** Prerequisites
   - [[https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools][mescc-tools]], 0.5 is known to work.
   - [[https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nyacc][Nyacc]], [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/nyacc][patched Nyacc]] 0.80.42 is known to work.
-  - [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes-seed][mes-seed]], 0.16 is known to work.
+  - [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes-seed][mes-seed]], 0.17 is known to work.
 
 ** Build it
    <setup environment, e.g. prefix, MES_SEED>
-
+   ./configure.sh [--prefix=<prefix>]
    ./build.sh
 
 ** Check it

NEWS

@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Copyright © 2016,2017,2018 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
 
 Please send Mes bug reports to bug-mes@gnu.org.
 
+* Changes in 0.17 since 0.16.1
+** Core
+*** GNU Mes is now an official GNU package.
+*** MesCC is now installed as a regular Guile package.
+*** Support --srcdir build.
+*** Support all standard GNU make targets.
+** MesCC
+*** Mes C Lib now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4.
 * Changes in 0.16.1 since 0.16
 ** Core
 *** Mes now builds out of the box on Debian buster/testing.
@@ -19,10 +27,10 @@ Please send Mes bug reports to bug-mes@gnu.org.
 *** MesCC now exits if spawning BLOOD_ELF, M1, or HEX2 fails.
 * Changes in 0.16 since 0.15
 ** Core
-*** Support building with tcc, including Mes Lib C in-line assembly.
+*** Support building with tcc, including Mes C Lib in-line assembly.
 *** core:execl now supports 1000 arguments.
 ** MesCC
-*** Mes Lib C now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.1.0.
+*** Mes C Lib now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.1.0.
 *** MesCC binaries now run on Linux 4.17 too, i.e. survive Linus' new `sane mmap limits.'
 *** MesCC now runs with mescc-tools 0.5 (no = in long options).
 **** 3 new C test
@@ -44,13 +52,13 @@ Please send Mes bug reports to bug-mes@gnu.org.
 *** 2 new functions
 drop, drop-right.
 ** MesCC
-*** MesCC and Mes Lib C can now build binutils-2.30, gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.2.5.
+*** MesCC and Mes C Lib can now build binutils-2.30, gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.2.5.
 *** MesCC now provides dummy crti.o, crtn.o so that tcc needs not be patched for those.
-*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling glibc-2.2.25.
+*** Mes C Lib now supports compiling glibc-2.2.25.
-*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling gcc-2.95.3
+*** Mes C Lib now supports compiling gcc-2.95.3
-*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling binutils-2.30.
+*** Mes C Lib now supports compiling binutils-2.30.
-*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling m4-1.4.
+*** Mes C Lib now supports compiling m4-1.4.
-*** Mes Lib C has been split into archs: gcc, x86-mes-gcc and x86-mes.
+*** Mes C Lib has been split into archs: gcc, x86-mes-gcc and x86-mes.
 *** MesCC now has a posixy command line interface.
 **** 70 new functions
 abs, access, alarm, alloca, atexit, atol, bcmp, bcopy, brk, bzero,

README

@@ -8,25 +8,24 @@ source bootstrapping for GNU/Linux distributions such as
 [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix][GuixSD]] as part of the
 [[http://bootstrappable.org][bootstrappable builds]] effort.
 
-It currently consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter
+It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in
-written in ~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written
+~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme.
-in Scheme.  This mes.c is [[https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2][being simplified]] to be transpiled by
+This mes.c is [[https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2][being simplified]] to be transpiled by [[https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet][M2-Planet]].
-[[https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet][M2-Planet]].
 
-The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a
+The Scheme interpreter (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a library of
-library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's [[https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm][LALR]],
+loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's [[https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm][LALR]], Pre-R6RS
-Pre-R6RS [[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html][portable syntax-case]] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's [[https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc][Nyacc]],
+[[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html][portable syntax-case]] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's [[https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc][Nyacc]] --and test
-Guile's [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html][PEG]] --and test suite just barely enough to support a simple
+suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL and simple
-REPL and simple C-compiler: MesCC.
+C-compiler: MesCC.
 
 Mes+MesCC can compile an only [[http://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc][lightly patched TinyCC]] that is
 self-hosting.  Using this tcc and the Mes C library we now have a
 reduced-binary-seed bootstrap for the gnutools triplet: glibc-2.2.5,
-binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.1.0.
+binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4.
 
-GNU Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%2525201.5%252520Programmers%252520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] --
+Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
-John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency
+McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
-and Jeremiah Orians's [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
+Jeremiah Orians's [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
 
 GNU Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU
 General Public Licence version 3 or later.  See the file [[file:COPYING][COPYING]].

build-aux/GNUmakefile.in

@@ -300,9 +300,20 @@ else
 $(warning update-hash: no guix)
 endif
 
-release: update-hash
+tag:
+	git tag -s v$(VERSION) -m "GNU Mes $(VERSION)."
+
+# Release process
+#  0. doc: Release update, Release commit, make seed, test guix bootstrap
+#  1. make tag
+#  2. make dist
+#  3. make release
+
+guix-build:
 	./pre-inst-env $(GUIX) build mes@$(VERSION) --with-source=$(TARBALL)
 
+release: update-hash | gen-announce guix-build
+
 GPG_KEY_ID:=1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273
 gen-announce:
 	../gnulib/build-aux/announce-gen\

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.10

@@ -93,4 +93,4 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
 [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.11

@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
 [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.12

@@ -93,5 +93,5 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
 [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [11] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.13

@@ -77,5 +77,5 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
 [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [11] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.14

@@ -97,5 +97,5 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
 [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [11] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.15

@@ -102,5 +102,5 @@ janneke
 [6] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
-[9] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[9] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [10] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.16

@@ -96,5 +96,5 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc
 [8] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [9] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [11] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.17

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+Subject: GNU Mes 0.17 released [alpha]
+
+<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
+
+We are delighted to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.17, representing
+55 commits over 5 weeks.
+
+Mes is now an official GNU package and we have bootstrapped gcc-4.7.4
+for x86-linux with a reduced binary seed (i.e., without regular toolchain).
+
+Next targets:
+
+ - upstream the x86 Mes bootstrap to GuixSD
+ - create a x86_64 Mes C Lib, see if that is is enough to bootstrap x86_64
+ - reduce the 1MB ASCII M1 seed to ~5000 LOC/~100KB of M2 source
+ - create a plan for Geesh and Gash and use them to reduce the
+   bootstrap binary dependencies
+ - and/or otherwise reduce the bootstrap binary dependencies
+
+Packages are available from Guix's wip-bootstrap branch.
+
+* About
+
+GNU Mes[0] aims to help create full source bootstrapping for GNU/Linux
+distributions such as GuixSD[1] as part of the bootstrappable builds[2]
+effort.
+
+It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in
+~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme.
+This mes.c is being simplified[3] to be transpiled by M2-Planet[4].
+
+The Scheme interpreter (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a library of
+loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's LALR[5],
+Pre-R6RS portable syntax-case[6] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's
+Nyacc[7] --and test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL
+and simple C-compiler: MesCC.
+
+Mes+MesCC can compile an only lightly patched TinyCC[8] that is
+self-hosting.  Using this tcc and the Mes C library we now have a
+reduced-binary-seed bootstrap for the gnutools triplet: glibc-2.2.5,
+binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4.
+
+Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[9] --
+John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency
+and Jeremiah Orians's stage0[10] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
+
+* Download
+
+  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git
+
+  Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
+    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.17.tar.gz
+    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.17.tar.gz.sig
+
+  Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
+    https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
+
+  Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
+
+  5e571c2f5ddaefbfe3dd618d69c40038  mes-0.17.tar.gz
+  1fbebe64ab330aec4c7ffbca88ea04b7be17458d  mes-0.17.tar.gz
+
+  [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
+  .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
+  and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
+
+    gpg --verify mes-0.17.tar.gz.sig
+
+  If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
+  then run this command to import it:
+
+    gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273
+
+  and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
+
+Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and
+installed in Guix[SD] from a git checkout by running
+
+    guix package -f .guix.scm
+
+* Get informed, get involved
+
+    Join #bootstrappable on irc.freenode.net.
+
+* Changes in 0.17 since 0.16.1
+ ** Core
+ *** GNU Mes is now an official GNU package.
+ *** MesCC is now installed as a regular Guile package.
+ *** Support --srcdir build.
+ *** Support all standard GNU make targets.
+ ** MesCC
+ *** Mes C Lib now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4.
+* Changes in 0.16.1 since 0.16
+ ** Core
+ *** Mes now builds out of the box on Debian buster/testing.
+ *** Mes now comes with a generic build recipe: build-aux/setup-mes.sh.
+ *** Mes now comes with INFO documentation.
+ ** MesCC
+ *** MesCC now exits if spawning BLOOD_ELF, M1, or HEX2 fails.
+
+Greetings,
+janneke
+
+[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mes
+[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
+[2] http://bootstrappable.org
+[3] https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2
+[4] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet
+[5] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
+[6] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
+[7] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc
+[8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
+[9] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
+[10] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.3

@@ -96,4 +96,4 @@ Greetings,
 Jan
 
 [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-09/msg00061.html 
-[2] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[2] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.4

@@ -100,4 +100,4 @@ Jan
 [2] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
 [3] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
 [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
-[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.5

@@ -74,6 +74,6 @@ janneke
 [2] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
 [3] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
 [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
-[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [6] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
 [7] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.6

@@ -77,6 +77,6 @@ janneke
 [2] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
 [3] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
 [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
-[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [6] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
 [7] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.7

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ janneke
 [2] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
 [3] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
 [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
-[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [6] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
 [7] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.8

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ janneke
 [2] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
 [3] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
 [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
-[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
 [6] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
 [7] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc

doc/announce/ANNOUNCE-0.9

@@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ janneke
 [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
 [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
 [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
-[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
+[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf

doc/mes.texi

@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ distribution from source, using only an initial 500 byte binary seed?
 As fate would have it, I stumbled upon this
 @url{https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523, interview with Alan
 Kay}, where he shares a revelation he had when reading John McCarthy's
-@url{http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf,
+@url{http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf,
 LISP-1.5} manual:
 
 @quotation