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| author | William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com> | 2015-11-09 17:31:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com> | 2015-11-09 17:31:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 2d6ae148c1a3c49fb8400f7de0787e1179aab53c (patch) | |
| tree | 8e081967eb3731b2f445157438600616fd1a5179 /src/RELEASE.txt | |
| parent | dec3978a72f6d65a0a8c8e4e180ff7b658c9f630 (diff) | |
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post 2.4.1 release changes
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diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt index baf3283..ed17984 100644 --- a/src/RELEASE.txt +++ b/src/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,68 +1,72 @@ - A new SCons release, 2.4.1, is now available + A new SCons checkpoint release, 2.4.2.alpha.yyyymmdd, is now available on the SCons download page: http://www.scons.org/download.php - Here is a summary of the changes since 2.4.0: + XXX The primary purpose of this release ... XXX + + A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to + new features so they can be tested in the field before being released + for adoption by other software distributions. + + Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven + development methodology as all SCons releases. Existing SCons + functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except + for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters + should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work + with existing SConscript files. If not, it represents not only a bug + in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to + hear about it. + + New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases, + especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other + functionality in SCons. We are especially interested in hearing bug + reports about new functionality. + + We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora, + etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the + "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names. + + Here is a summary of the changes since 1.3.0: NEW FUNCTIONALITY - - InstallVersionedLib now available in the DefaultEnvironment context. - - Added new configure check, CheckProg, to check for existence of a program. - - Add support `Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7' - Compiler can be obtained at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 + + - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released) DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY + - List anything that's been deprecated since the last release + CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY - - Reimplemented versioning for shared libraries, with the following effects - - Fixed tigris issues #3001, #3006. - - Fixed several other issues not reported to tigris, including: - issues with versioned libraries in subdirectories with tricky names, - issues with versioned libraries and variant directories, - issue with soname not being injected to library when using D linkers, - - Switched to direct symlinks instead of daisy-chained ones -- soname and - development symlinks point directly to the versioned shared library now), - for rationale see: - https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Devel_Packages - https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/247/new-versioned-libraries-gnulink-cyglink/diff#comment-10063929 - - New construction variables to allow override default behavior: SONAME, - SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS, _SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS, SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS, - LDMODULEVERSION, LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS, _LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS, - LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS. - - Changed logic used to configure the versioning machinery from - platform-centric to linker-oriented. - - The SHLIBVERSION/LDMODULEVERSION variables are no longer validated by - SCons (more freedom to users). - - InstallVersionedLib() doesn't use SHLIBVERSION anymore. - - Enchanced docs for the library versioning stuff. - - New tests for versioned libraries. - - Library versioning is currently implemented for the following linker - tools: 'cyglink', 'gnulink', 'sunlink'. + - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior + wouldn't actually be considered a bug FIXES - - Fix for issue #2840 - Fix for two environments specifying same target with different - actions not throwing hard error. Instead SCons was incorrectly issuing a warning - and continuing. - - Fix to swig tool - pick-up 'swig', 'swig3.0' and 'swig2.0' (in order). - - Fix to swig tool - respect env['SWIG'] provided by user. - - Fix for Bug # 2791 - Setup.py fails unnecessarily under Jython. - - Fixed license of SVG titlepage files in the context of Debian - packaging, such that they allow for commercial use too (#2985). - - Fixed tigris issue #3011: Glob() excludes didn't work when used with VariantDir(duplicate=0) - - Fix bug 2831 and allow Help() text to be appended to AddOption() help. + - List fixes of outright bugs IMPROVEMENTS + - List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the + documentation: performance improvements (describe the circumstances + under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups + PACKAGING + - List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released + DOCUMENTATION + - List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual + typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give + the contributor credit) + DEVELOPMENT - Thanks to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis, Dirk Baechle, William Blevins, Carnë Draug, Andrew Featherstone, Hiroaki Itoh, Florian Miedniak, William Roberts, Paweł Tomulik for their contributions to this release. + - List visible changes in the way SCons is developed + + Thanks to CURLY, LARRY, and MOE for their contributions to this release. 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