Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install kawa

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install kawa

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · kawa · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#kawa

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ka/kawa/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Programming language for Java (implementation of Scheme)

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

kawa

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Kawa is a GNU Scheme implementation and language framework for the Java Virtual Machine, combining a Scheme REPL and compiler with close access to Java classes and bytecode.

Projektgeschichte

The official Kawa internals paper, started from a November 1998 presentation, describes Kawa as a set of Java classes for implementing dynamic languages and as a near-R5RS Scheme implementation that compiles to JVM bytecode.

Kawa evolved beyond a Scheme interpreter into a language framework. The internals documentation describes it as both an implementation of Scheme and a toolkit that also incorporated projects such as Qexo for XQuery and JEmacs for Emacs Lisp.

The official news page records major language-runtime milestones: Kawa 2.0 in December 2014 brought R7RS compatibility work, Kawa 2.3 in January 2017 moved the source repository to GitLab, Kawa 3.0 in October 2017 updated the codebase for Java 8 and Java 9-era changes, and Kawa 3.1.1 was documented in January 2020.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Kawa has long occupied a niche among JVM languages: it is valuable to Scheme users who want Java interop, to language implementers studying JVM compilation, and to package maintainers who care about Lisp-family runtimes outside the more common C or native-code implementations.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run Kawa as an interactive language, a compiler to Java bytecode, or a Java-integrated scripting system. Its documentation emphasizes REPL use, static checking, modularity, and direct Java method and class access.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Kawa is significant because it is both a language runtime and a compiler framework packaged like a Unix tool. It sits at the intersection of GNU packaging, Scheme standards, JVM bytecode, and the long history of alternative languages on Java.

Zeitleiste

1998-11: Kawa internals material began as a presentation on compiling Scheme to Java
2014-12-02: Kawa 2.0 news entry highlighted R7RS compatibility
2017-01-13: Kawa 2.3 moved source hosting to GitLab
2017-10-02: Kawa 3.0 updated the project for Java 8 and Java 9-era changes
2020-01-16: Kawa 3.1.1 documented packaging and browse-manual fixes

Related projects

Kawa is related to Scheme standards such as R5RS and R7RS, GNU Guile, other JVM languages, Qexo, JEmacs, SRFI libraries, and Java bytecode tooling.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: yellow

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risikoklassifikator

yellow Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · runtime

Warum

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Signale

text:programming language

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 1 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.kawarc.scm
Windows: %USERPROFILE%\kawarc.scm

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`kawa`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-11-04

Manager-Version3.1.1

Manager aktualisiert2026-11-01

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:kawa
Version	3.1.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kawa
Homepage	https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
Lizenz	MIT
Quellarchiv	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/kawa/kawa-3.1.1.zip
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-11-01T20:20:23-05:00
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	openjdk
Bottle	verfügbar (auf all)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	kawa
Version Scheme	0
Revision	1
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

kawa

nix profile install nixpkgs#kawa

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Kawa

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ka/kawa/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

dnf95%

kawa 3.1.1-26.fc45

Scheme programming language

https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/

sudo dnf install kawa

License: MIT
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: kawa
9 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Kawa

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: kawa from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/652278618dec9c023176a80c435a32a2c8154869fb0eb662c267a54df28d77d9-primary.xml.zst

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/kawa.yml

Verwendete Quellen

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curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

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