1.0.18.29: documentation tweaks

 * Mention putative buildability on Win64 in NEWS.

 * Weak hash tables are supposed to work, don't say otherwise on the
   man-page.

 * Tweak README: mention INSTALL first. Manual lives in doc/manual
   nowadays, INSTALL tells how to build it.

NEWS

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
     presense of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
   * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
     arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
+  * improvements to the Windows port:
+    ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
+       Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
        to single-float coercions.

README

@@ -2,17 +2,18 @@ GENERAL INFORMATION
 
 Welcome to SBCL.
 
+If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
+
 To find out more about who created the system, see the "CREDITS" file.
 
 If you'd like information about the legalities of copying the system,
 see the "COPYING" file.
 
-If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
-
 If you'd like more information about using the system, see the man
-page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/" subdirectory of the
-distribution. (The user manual is maintained as Texinfo in the source
-distribution; HTML version is available for download.)
+page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/manual" subdirectory of
+the distribution. (The user manual is maintained as Texinfo in the
+source distribution; HTML version is available for download, and
+"INSTALL" describes how to build the Texinfo version in HTML and PDF.)
 
 The system is a work in progress. See the "TODO" file in the source
 distribution for some highlights.

doc/sbcl.1

@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@ Gray streams (a de-facto standard system of overloadable CLOS classes
 whose instances can be used wherever ordinary ANSI streams can be used)
 .TP 3
 \--
-weak pointers and finalization (which have unfortunately
-suffered from at least some code rot, so that \fIe.g.\fR weak hash
-tables don't work)
+weak pointers and finalization
 .PP
 
 Fundamental system interface extensions are also provided:

version.lisp-expr

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 ;;; checkins which aren't released. (And occasionally for internal
 ;;; versions, especially for internal versions off the main CVS
 ;;; branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
-"1.0.18.28"
+"1.0.18.29"