Librep is a shared library implementing a Lisp dialect that is lightweight, reasonably fast, and highly extensible. It contains an interpreter, byte-code compiler, and virtual machine. Applications may use the interpreter as an extension language, or it may be used for standalone scripts. Rep was originally inspired by Emacs Lisp. However one of the main deficiencies of elisp--the reliance on dynamic scope--has been removed. Also, rep only has a single namespace for symbols.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Linux BSD Solaris Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C Lisp |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in librep.pc, which prevented compilation of rep-gtk and Sawfish. It fixes build failures on OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, and if an old FFI is installed. Several missing symbols have been added to the symbol file. Compilation is allowed with makepp instead of GNU make. A 'position' meta-function has been added, and a few helpers imported from Sawfish.


Release Notes: For extra modules, now shared objects are loaded rather than libtoo archives. The architecture and version have been removed from installation paths, and the soname bumped to 16.0.0, thus all packages linking against librep need to be rebuilt. Improved Debian packaging scripts.


Release Notes: The module "ffi.utils" has been added, which provides functions aiding in using rep's FFI-binding. A build issue has been fixed by improving librep.pc. The functions "function-name" and "remove-hook-by-name" have been added. Documentation was added and revised. The RPM and Debian packaging scripts were improved.


Release Notes: This release is ABI-incompatible with earlier versions, so you'll need to recompile everything built against librep. The uninstall rule has been fixed. backtrace-on-error, debug-on-error, and docstring support have been improved. There is a new function subr-structure; define-special-variable is replaced by defvar-setq. Major revision of the documentation.


Release Notes: The file-uid-p and file-gid-p functions were renamed to file-uid and file-gid. The RPM spec file was improved. Documentation was added regarding the string-split, signal, and require functions. Process execution failures now produce better error messages.