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diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt index 2228a83..0e63771 100644 --- a/src/RELEASE.txt +++ b/src/RELEASE.txt @@ -27,6 +27,33 @@ RELEASE 0.96 - XXX Please note the following important changes since release 0.95: + - All Builder calls (both built-in like Program(), Library(), + etc. and customer Builders) now always return a list of target + Nodes. If the Builder only builds one target, the Builder + call will now return a list containing that target Node, not + the target Node itself as it used to do. + + This change should be invisibile to most normal uses of the + return values from Builder calls. It will cause an error if the + SConscript file was performing some direct manipulation of the + returned Node value. For example, an attempt to print the name + of a target returned by the Object() Builder: + + target = Object('foo.c') + # OLD WAY + print target + + Will now need to access the first element in the list returned by + the Object() call: + + target = Object('foo.c') + # NEW AY + print target[0] + + This change was introduced to make the data type returned by Builder + calls consistent (always a list), regardless of platform or number + of returned targets. + - The SConsignFile() function now uses an internally-supplied SCons.dblite module as the default DB scheme for the .sconsign file. If you are using the SConsignFile() function without an explicitly @@ -58,7 +85,7 @@ RELEASE 0.96 - XXX FortranScan.add_skey('.x') => env.Append(FORTRANSUFFIXES = ['.x']) - The internal "node_factory" keyword argument has been removed; - the seperate and more flexible "target_factory" and "source_factory" + the separate and more flexible "target_factory" and "source_factory" keywords should be used instead. - SCons now treats file "extensions" that contain all digits (for |