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authorDavid Aspinall1999-08-27 13:41:22 +0000
committerDavid Aspinall1999-08-27 13:41:22 +0000
commitebe94eb0dc293a8ab8c96a5606ba822b02b6ba5a (patch)
tree4d520856c42d2d94b958fa5511d5266d5451c194
parent0dd378045d9d435f205b8899dad4622e740116f6 (diff)
Updated for 2.1
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@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ To: coq-club@pauillac.inria.fr,
-Subject: Proof General --- Version 2.0 release
+Subject: Proof General --- Version 2.1 release
- Announcing Proof General Version 2.0
+ Announcing Proof General Version 2.1
A Generic Emacs interface for Interactive Proof Assistants
- http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/proofgen
+ http://zermelo.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/proofgen
=========================
@@ -62,9 +62,8 @@ Isabelle. It includes these features (amongst others):
Script management is the main feature.
-
The user manual contains full details, and is available on-line at:
-http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~proofgen/ProofGeneral/doc/ProofGeneral_toc.html
+http://zermelo.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~proofgen/ProofGeneral/doc/ProofGeneral_toc.html
The rest of this announcement contains notes addressed to different
@@ -74,15 +73,18 @@ Emacs gurus.
To users of LEGO, Coq, and Isabelle:
------------------------------------
-This release of Proof General should be stable enough for you to use
-happily. Please try it and let us know what you think of it!
+This release of Proof General has numerous bug fixes and improvements
+over version 2.0. It also supports the latest theorem prover
+versions: LEGO 1.3.1, Coq 6.3 and Isabelle 99.
+
+Please try it and let us know what you think of it!
-We have put a lot of work into the user documentation for Proof
-General and making it robust and easy to install. Ideally you should
-use it with XEmacs, but it also works with limited features in FSF GNU
-Emacs. We have tested on XEmacs 20.4 and Emacs 20.2, 20.3. (It
-probably works with earlier versions of either Emacs but we cannot
-guarantee this).
+We have put a lot of work into the user documentation for Proof General
+and making it robust and easy to install. Ideally you should
+use it with XEmacs, but it also works with limited features in
+FSF GNU Emacs. We have tested on XEmacs 20.4,21.1 and
+Emacs 20.2, 20.3. (It probably works with earlier versions of
+either Emacs but we cannot guarantee this).
To users of other proof assistants:
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ drive them. Moreover, by implementing your user-interface ideas in
the Proof General framework, your contributions automatically reach a
large community of both novice and expert proof assistant users.
-An obvious avenue towards further and easier unification would be to
+A desirable avenue towards further and easier unification would be to
invent a unified proof script (input) language and proof-state
(output) language for theorem provers. The Proof General experience
could provide useful insight into such a project. We'd be interested
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ in using Proof General's script management for development in Lisp,
SML, or other languages.
- -- David Aspinall & Thomas Kleymann
- (Please contact via proofgen@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
+ -- David Aspinall <da@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
+ August 1999.
+