Noteworthy changes in version `1.24.0'
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* 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'
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* 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'
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* 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.
* Many updates to include new OS X methods up to 10.5
* Made KeyValueCoding/Observing fully functional and MacOS-X compatible
See the release notes for more information.
License changed to GPLv3. Mostly bug fixes, particularly with regard
to XML handling and handling unichar on Windows.
Changes 1.14.0:
Many portability (particularly for ms-windows) and MacOS-X
compatibility fixes. New MacOS-X classes and incorporation of
NSAffineTransform and NSSpellServer which were formerly in the gui
library. Improved performance of amssively multithreaded programs.
Debug libraries now have the same name as normal libraries (i.e. no "_d"
suffix). This reduces the possiblity of multiple libraries being loaded
into the same executable.
Added dragonfly OS to make targets.
Spaces and backslashes are no longer allowed in paths used by the
make package (e.g. with Windows OS). The libraries can still use native
paths.
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).
There have been a number of API changes and several methods have been
depreciated in this release. Although current GNUstep programs that use
these methods will still work in this version, there are enough changes
that a new library version was considered useful. See the release notes
for more details
New NSStream classes where added to the library.
User defaults were restructured to create the defaults lazily and
can be set to not write to an external file at all, for developers who
wish to use the library as a stand-alone library or in other situations
where using external resources is not desired.
* 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.
