Scheme Request for Implementation 176,
"Version flag,"
by Lassi Kortela,
has gone into "final" status.

The document and an archive of the discussion are available at https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-176/.

Here's the abstract:

This SRFI defines a standard command-line flag to get version information from a Scheme implementation.  The output is Line-oriented S-expressions which are easy to parse from Scheme, C, and shell scripts and can co-exist with non-S-expression output.  A standard vocabulary is defined; extensions are easy to make.

Here are the diffs since the most recent draft:

https://github.com/scheme-requests-for-implementation/srfi-176/compare/76c2b10e..afa6e310

• Replace `git diff-files` with `diff-index`
• Fix bytes -> bits in example
• Edit prose
• Clarify -v and -version and --version
• Clarify run time properties
• Fix HTML id attributes
• Use italics instead of bold for emphasis
• Fix two spelling errors.
• Remove slightly incorrect TAOUP quote
• Be explicit about order
• Add os.stdio property
• Clarify install-dir
• Clarify encoding aliases and default
• Give encodings as symbols instead of strings
• Finalize.

Many thanks to Lassi and to everyone who contributed to the discussion of this SRFI.

Regards,


SRFI Editor