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| author | Greg Noel <GregNoel@tigris.org> | 2010-06-15 02:11:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Greg Noel <GregNoel@tigris.org> | 2010-06-15 02:11:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 24d706e40bbffb7e8a13a1e28cbfe435836a8762 (patch) | |
| tree | 26ba2db95b7264a867358b703c78beed79fccee1 /src/RELEASE.txt | |
| parent | 155243b5bf995fb51c668dae69d606130bd05e1f (diff) | |
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Add the warning about the regression in 1.3 that's carried over into 2.0.
Since the problem has a viable workaround, it was not deemed worth delaying
the 2.0 release.
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diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt index 6271f40..eb80281 100644 --- a/src/RELEASE.txt +++ b/src/RELEASE.txt @@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ versions prior to 2.4 and streamline the SCons code base using more modern python idioms. + IMPORTANT: In 1.3.0 and 2.0.0, explicit dependencies (configured via + the Depends() call) are ignored for any nodes that do not have builders. + This known issue[1] will typically only happen if you explicitly + configure a builder call to create multiple output files, some of which + are "hidden" from SCons by not being listed in the targets list, and then + use Depends() to establish an explicit dependency on a "hidden" file. + + [1] See http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2647 for details. + 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. |