13.20.4 Other Changes
-
Windows XP is no longer supported since it has reached its end of
life (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx)
-
Solaris 8 and 9 are no longer supported. Solaris 10 is still supported
on both SPARC and x86/x86_64 platforms.
- Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard are no longer
supported. Mac OS X 10.7 and later are supported (64-bit only).
- The Emacs mode will not actively be maintained for XEmacs. GNU Emacs is still
fully supported and we will consider fixing reported XEmacs problems.
Users are encouraged to migrate to SPIDER
(see SICStus Prolog IDE).
- The Prolog flags
single_var_warnings
and discontiguous_warnings
are now volatile with default value off
in runtime systems.
This means that, as before, in runtime systems, these warnings are off by default,
but now they can be switched on.
absolute_file_name/[2,3]
no longer treats the file name
user
in a special way, by default. The new option
if_user/1
is available if the old behavior is needed.
absolute_file_name/[2,3]
now applies the same kind of
case-normalization to the extensions/1
and glob/1
arguments as to
the file name. This affects Windows, where extensions(['.pl'])
now will have the same effect as extensions(['.PL'])
. Prior to
release 4.3 the extensions/1
and glob/1
options were case sensitive on all
platforms.
- On Windows,
open/[3,4]
,
and other built-in predicates that creates files and directories,
no longer applies
case-normalization on the file name before creating a file. This
means that open/[3,4]
creates files using the same
character case as specified in the file argument. The stream property
file_name/1
is not affected, i.e. it still shows a
case-normalized name.
This change is mostly invisible from Prolog but it means that creating
a file with open('HelloWorld.txt', write, S)
will now create
file named ‘HelloWorld.txt’ whereas earlier releases would create
a file ‘helloworld.txt’.
library(types)
:
Goal and Arity arguments are now checked.
- Jasper:
Java 6, e.g. JDK 1.6, or later is required for all Java code.
- Jasper:
On OS X, the file suffix for the SICStus Java Native Library has
changed from ‘.jnilib’ to ‘.dylib’, for compatibility with
Java 8.
library(lists)
:
is_list/1
and proper_length/2
now fail for
cyclic lists. They used to not terminate.
- CLPFD:
- Some options of
table/3
and case/4
have gone obsolete.
- Machine capacities of
cumulatives/3
do not need to be fixed.
- ZINC:
The Flatzinc parser is significantly faster, and solving is often
faster too. Several search options now have support in C.
- The unsupported
library(tkconsole)
and
tcltk:tk_terminal/5
has been ported from SICStus 3 to SICStus
4.
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