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A new SCons checkpoint release, 2.6.0.alpha.yyyymmdd, is now available
on the SCons download page:
http://www.scons.org/download.php
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
- 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
- List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior
wouldn't actually be considered a bug
FIXES
- 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
- List visible changes in the way SCons is developed
Thanks to CURLY, LARRY, and MOE for their contributions to this release.
Contributors are listed alphabetically by their last name.
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