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+Guile-assimp
+============
+
+Guile-assimp is a set of GNU Guile bindings to the Open Asset Import
+Library (assimp). Guile-assimp works with GNU Guile 2.0.11 or later.
+See [the Guile-assimp page](https://gitorious.org/guile-assimp) for more
+details.
+
+[Open Asset Import Library](https://github.com/assimp/assimp) is a Open
+Source library designed to load various 3d file formats and convert them
+into a shared, in-memory format. It supports more than 40 file formats for
+import and a growing selection of file formats for export.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+The following programs/libraries are required to accomplish the build process:
+
+- make
+- guile 2.0 (or later)
+- assimp (with headers)
+
+If those are provided, just type ./configure && make && make install.
+
+In the "examples" directory you can find a sample program to test the library.
+You will need [figl module](https://gitorious.org/guile-figl) installed to
+run it.