4.7 (9 April 2004)
* Language:
. new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for
initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc).
Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere.
. new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook.
. new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals.
. new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages.
. new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol.
. new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable.
. new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo.
. new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems.
. @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the
old meaning of just displaying a url as text.
. @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text
as a `Note', `Tip', etc.
. @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @.
. @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym.
* makeinfo:
. New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output
format at runtime, if no options are specified.
. New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output.
. All outputs:
- sections are numbered by default.
. Info output:
- punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
cross-references valid.
- line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to
the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output.
- ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers
can handle the ] etc. commands better.
. HTML output:
- new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum
portability and stability.
- include node name in <title> with split output.
- @multicolumn fractions become percentages.
- entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others.
- index entries are links to the exact locations.
- <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again.
- accented dotless i supported.
. XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features.
. Docbook output:
- upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML.
- improved translation in general, for instance:
- line annotations and marked quotations.
* texi2dvi:
. if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default.
. if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf.
. more output if --debug.
* texinfo.tex:
. @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and
within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter.
. @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must
be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This
change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.)
* info:
. new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file
would be found, instead of reading it.
. by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option
--no-raw-escapes overrides this.
. use the newly-generated index line numbers.
* Distribution:
. new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in
getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in
maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_toc.html).
. Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent.
. New translation: nb.
. automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1.
1.11 Apr 12, 2004
- No code changes, just switching to including a Makefile.PL that uses
ExtUtils::MakeMaker instead of one that sneakily uses Module::Build.
Requested by Perrin Harkins.
1.10 Mar 10, 2004
- Silence a warning from the test code if Exception::Class isn't
installed. Reported by Stefano Ruberti.
- Localize $@ to avoid overwriting a previously set $@ while creating
a Devel::StackTrace object. This caused a test failure in the
Exception::Class tests when run with Perl 5.6.1, but not with 5.8.3.
I don't really know how to test for it outside of Exception::Class.
Reported by Jesse Erlbaum.
1.09 Feb 26, 2004
- The overload workaround blows up if a DBI handle is anywhere in the
stack, because of a bad interaction between overload::Overloaded and
DBI's custom dispatching. This release works around that.
1.08 Feb 23, 2004
- Some tests failed on Win32 because they were hardcoded to expect a
file name with forward slashes. Reported by Steve Hay.
1.07 Feb 21, 2004
- This release includes a change to the overload handling that is
necessary for cooperation with Exception::Class.
1.06 Feb 21, 2004
- Devel::StackTrace now uses overload::StrVal() to get the underlying
string value of an overloaded object when creating a stack frame for
display. This can be turned off by setting respect_overload to a true
value. Suggested by Matt Sisk.
1.05 Feb 17, 2004
- Devel::StackTrace incorrectly reported that arguments were being
passed to eval blocks (which isn't possible). Reported by Mark Dedlow.
1.04 Sep 25, 2003
- The special handling of Exception::Class::Base objects was broken.
This was exposed by the fact that Exception::Class 1.15 now uses
Devel::StackTrace in a slightly different way than it did previously.
* Documentation changes to match Buildtool 0.16.
- Track the renaming of defines, which now include the language name in
them.
- Added information about the bt_check_prog_make function.
- Documented the new 'test' target/stage.
- Documented the new BT_IS_TEST definition in the 'program' type.
- Documented the new 'bt_logic.conf' system-wide configuration file.
- Documented the new '--destdir' flag in bt_logic.
- Documented the new '--workdir' flag in bt_config and bt_logic, as well
as the BT_USE_WORKDIR variable, related to it.
- Documented the new bt_echo and bt_source functions in bt_swcgen.
- Rewritten the bt_swcgen chapter to match reality (no more M4). This
should have happened in the previous version.
* Dropped some leftovers of documentation about the bt_make module and
related Makefiles. The information has been reworded to match logic
scripts where appropiate.
* Fixed the description of bt_define and bt_define_unquoted functions, as
they take a pair of values, not a list of variables.
Sixteenth alpha version, released on 2004/07/04.
o Added preliminar support for work directories, which are used to put
all temporary files created during a build in them. This allows mak-
ing the source tree read only, as it won't get polluted in any way.
Note that existing packages may need some tweaks in their logic files
to support this completely. To help with testing, you should set the
BT_USE_WORKDIR variable in bt_config.conf to `yes', so that this fea-
ture is always used.
o Added a standard customizable `DOC' feature, which can be used by the
end user to disable installation of documentation. Existing packages
may need to be fixed to honour this, though.
o bt_logic's core has been rewritten. It is now much faster than
before and has better dependency control, which solves many stupid
bugs.
o A framework to run uninstalled programs (those which may be linked to
uninstalled libraries) has been readded. It is very similar to what
libtool does with its .libs directory, and is completely transparent
to the end user.
o Added (in fact, readded, as it was lost during the conversion to
bt_logic) support to install packages in a fake root directory,
needed in many package systems to support Buildtool-ized programs.
o Definitions' names (those written to the configuration header) have
been changed to include the language name they refer to in them.
This provides better support when the C and C++ compilers do not
match. Note that for this to take effect you need to set BT_REQUIRE
to (at least) `0.16'; otherwise, the previous behavior is kept.
o Multiple fixes have been done in the bt_check_bits() function.
o Fixed the link command in bt_logic so that library directories
appearing under the same project hierarchy (and manually specified by
the -L flag) are not converted to an rpath.
o Fixed build under OpenBSD 3.4, HP-UX and Tru64.
o Added the bt_check_prog_make() check in bt_config, which looks for a
make utility.
o Added the bt_echo() and bt_source() functions to bt_swcgen.
o The installation was changed to use unversioned directories and bina-
ries.
Fixes
- Don't show multi-workspace related menu items if there is only
a single workspace (Johan Persson)
Translators
- Vladimir Petkov (bg)
- Gil Osher (he)
- Kjartan Maraas (no)
- Mi?u Moldovan (ro)
- Ivan Noris (sk)
Fixes:
- Get rid of duplicate '/' with AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 (Daniel Elstner)
- Don't create a directory for docs if we're not installing them (Julio M.
Merino Vidal)
- Fix a bug with the markup backend on 64-bit (Joe Marcus Clarke)
- Fix a leak (Kjartan)
- Return an error for incorrect source addresses (Mark)
Translators:
- Gisela Carbonell (ca)
- Christian Neumair (de)
- Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
- LoneStar (zh_CN)
* Check that label in page tab is showing before returning it. (bug #129608)
* Ensure that create-tab notification is not sent when tab is removed.
(bug #128970)
* Report accelerator correctly for menu items created using GtkAction and
GtkUIManager. (bug #143587)
* Add translations: Bulgarian [Vladimir Petkov]
Changes:
Changes since version 1.3.2
* Make it work with gcc-3.2.
Changes since version 1.3.1
* Contrib reorganization.
* New contrib items.
* Convert to latest and greatest autoconf, automake versions.
* Implement automatic detection of gcc version 3 and apply the gcc3
patch in configure.
* Apply a patch for compilation on Apple/Darwin (without gcc3).
Changes since version 1.3.0
* Fix the following bug: a repository inconsistency could arise when
a checkin operation is aborted after the project's RCS version file
has been updated but before the PRCS repository data file is updated.
* Fix a partial-checkin bug.
* Fix bugs related to deleted project versions.
* 'prcs info' now now prints summary information for deleted project
versions.
* Patches have been included for compilation with GCC 3.0.x.
* Debian packaging.
* prcs.el improvements.
* prcs usage() reports to stdout instead of stderr.
* prcs.texi bug in 'prcs execute' example.
* contrib/prcs-clean improvements.
Changes since version 1.2.16
* Add new command 'prcs changes' command.
* Support for the new 'changes' command.
* Add new --version-log= option to 'prcs checkin'.
* Add new contrib package 'pck'.
* Add a new --no-keywords option to 'prcs populate'.
* Updated 'prcsutils' contrib package.
* Updated 'visualtree' contrib package.
* Fix a keyword-substitution bug.
* Upgrade to regex sources from glibc-2.2.4 for 64-bit support.
* Remove a declaration of abort() that was conflicting with the
headers in RedHat 7.x and causing compilation problems.
* Fix for non-existant user/group handling in 'prcs admin access'
* Fix for checkin and merge commands to preserve the project file
mode.
* Fix prcs.el to support Emacs 21.
* PRCS checks for proper versions of RCS and GNU diffutils before
running--these checks were broken by GNU diffutils 2.7.2 and are now
fixed.
Changes since version 1.2.15
* Incorporate new contrib submissions (rprcs, prcs-synch, visualtree,
pfe and prcsutils).
* Previously, 'prcs config' would perform a sanity check on the
configured RCS and diff commands to see that are indeed the GNU
versions of those commands.
* After a successful merge, list all files which have merge conflicts.
Merge "No Prompt" actions are now silent unless -L is specified, and
"Do Nothing" actions are silent when -f is specified and unless -L
is specified.
* Improve error reporting.
* The documentation stated that `:' was a valid character for major
version names, although the program has never accepted this character.
0.7.5 is a bug fix release, including:
- force lookup of journal props in anydbm filtering
- fixed lookup of "missing" Link values for new props in anydbm backend
- allow list of values for id, Number and Boolean filtering in anydbm
backend
- fixed some more mysql 0.6->0.7 upgrade bugs (sf bug 950410)
- fixed Boolean values in postgresql (sf bugs 972546 and 972600)
- fixed -g arg to roundup-server (sf bug 973946)
- better roundup-server usage string (sf bug 973352)
- include "context" always, as documented (sf bug 965447)
- fixed REMOTE_USER (external HTTP Basic auth) (sf bug 977309)
- fixed roundup-admin "find" to use better value parsing
- fixed RDBMS Class.find() to handle None value in multiple find
- export now stores file "content" in separate files in export directory
0.7.4 is a bug fix release, including:
- re-acquire the OTK manager when we re-open the database
- mailgw handler can close the database on us
- fixed grouping by a NULL Link value
- fixed anydbm import/export (sf bugs 965216, 964457, 964450)
- fix python 2.3.3 strftime deprecation warning (sf patch 968398)
- fix some column datatypes in postgresql and mysql (sf bugs 962611,
959177 and 964231)
- fixed RDBMS journal packing (sf bug 959177)
- fixed filtering by floats in anydbm (sf bug 963584)
