Noteworthy changes in version `1.24.0'
======================================
* There is binary incompatibility on 64bit systems in that the value
of the NSNotFound constant there is now 64bits rather than 32bits.
* gcc-4.0 is the minimum official supported compiler for GNUstep
* Support for the GNU LANGUAGES environment variable and other locale
improvements
* IPV6 support for NSHost and networking operations
* Support for UTF-8 string literals in source (compiler permitting)
Noteworthy changes in version `1.23.0'
======================================
* Support for automatic reference counting (ARC) when using clasng
and the GNUstep Objective-C 2.0 runtime 1.5 or later.
* Full support for weak references in NSHashTable, NSMapTable and
NSPointerArray when using clang and the GNUstep Objective-C 2.0
runtime 1.5 or later.
Noteworthy changes in version `1.22.0'
======================================
* Many updates and new classes
* There is now a regression test framework included with the package
* New support for Objective-C 2.0
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
and add a new helper target and script, "show-buildlink3", that outputs
a listing of the buildlink3.mk files included as well as the depth at
which they are included.
For example, "make show-buildlink3" in fonts/Xft2 displays:
zlib
fontconfig
iconv
zlib
freetype2
expat
freetype2
Xrender
renderproto
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
* Support for GNUstep.conf and relocation of the filesystem is much
improved in this release.
* The WM_QUIT message is now intercepted to allow an application to
terminate cleanly.
* NSMessagePort was implemented on Windows platforms.
* Deprecated support for system-wide GNUsteprc files has been
removed.
* Some support for keeping user defaults in the Windows registry
implemented.
* Window's path handling has changed to use native paths throughout.
* Startup/configuration of the libraries no longer requires
environement variables.
* Character sets are included in the library rather than being read
from data files.
* NSRunLoop and related classes use natvie win32 event handling on
Windows machines.
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED for dependent packages due to
library major revision bump.
Noteworthy changes in gnustep-base-1.10.0:
==========================================
Note the interface version of the library has changed so that apps,
tools and libraries the use the base library need to be recompiled to
use it.
* A large majority of the library classes have been documented
thanks to the efforts of Andrew Ruder
* URL classes support persistant connections
* Mac OSX XML compatibility fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version `1.9.1'
=====================================
* Default string encoding taken from system nl_langinfo if not set
with GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING.
* NSKeyedArchiver/NSKeyedUnarchiver classes added.
* NSPropertyLists class added, also decodes Mac OS X binary propery
lists.
Noteworthy changes in version `1.9.0'
=====================================
* Lazy locking implemented (see GSLock documentation)
* MacOSX PB files updated to 10.3
* DO retain/release implementation simplified and also handles some
complex DO retain/release problems.
* GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING now supports any valid iconv name.
* gdomap uid/gid fixes
* NSString subclass heirarchy reorganized to fix problems with
copying and ownership of data.
