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diff --git a/src/Announce.txt b/src/Announce.txt index 8af27c9..2e30f82 100644 --- a/src/Announce.txt +++ b/src/Announce.txt @@ -19,13 +19,37 @@ effectively, please go to http://scons.org/lists.php#users to sign up for the scons-users mailing list. -RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000 +RELEASE 2.3.0 - Mon, 02 Mar 2013 13:22:29 -0400 Please consult the RELEASE.txt file for a summary of changes since the last release and consult the CHANGES.txt file for complete a list of changes since last release. This announcement highlights only the important changes. + Please note the following important changes since release 2.2.0: + + -- SUPPORT FOR PYTHON VERSIONS BEFORE 2.7 IS NOW DEPRECATED + + ***IMPORTANT***: This release is the last version of SCons to support + Python versions older than 2.7. This release will warn if you are + running on Python 2.6 or older; future releases will probably not + work at all, as we are moving toward supporting Python 3. + Use --warn=no-python-version to suppress the warning if needed. + + -- A lot of python pre-2.4 compatibility code was removed + in this release. 2.4 is the official floor for SCons, + but this release will likely enforce it more rigidly. + + -- Spawning subprocesses on Windows should now be more reliable with -jN + + -- MSVC10 and MSVC11 support improved, and fixed MSVS11 solution generation. + + -- Various TeX/LaTeX builder improvements + + -- Support for versioned shared libs on Linux and Mac, via + SHLIBVERSION and InstallVersionedLib. + + -- WiX builder updates Please note the following important changes since release 2.1.0: @@ -43,7 +67,7 @@ RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000 -- SCons now searches sitewide dirs for site_scons - -- Support for Latex bibunits package has been added along with + -- Support for Latex bibunits package has been added along with support for tex files generated by other builders @@ -106,7 +130,7 @@ RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000 the same version as MSVC_VERSION. Support for HOST_OS,HOST_ARCH,TARGET_OS, TARGET_ARCH has been - added to allow specifying different target arch than the host + added to allow specifying different target arch than the host system. This is only supported for Visual Studio/Visual C++ at this time. @@ -261,7 +285,7 @@ RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000 initializing construction environments with the 'g77' Tool module: env = Environment(tools = ['g77', 'default']) - + The above code is backwards compatible to older versions of SCons. If you notice any other changes in the behavior of default @@ -521,7 +545,7 @@ RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000 non-True value: env = Environment(IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES = 0) - + or by adding Ignore() calls for any targets where the behavior is desired: @@ -618,7 +642,7 @@ RELEASE 2.2.0 - Mon, 05 Aug 2012 15:37:48 +0000 env.Foo('tgt1', 'src1') env.Bar('tgt2', 'src2') - + SCons would have expected to find a source file 'src1.foo' for the env.Foo() call, but a source file 'src2' for the env.Bar() call. @@ -1063,5 +1087,5 @@ With plenty of help from the SCons Development team: Greg Spencer Christoph Wiedemann -Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 The SCons Foundation -src/Announce.txt issue-2856:2676:d23b7a2f45e8 2012/08/05 15:38:28 garyo +Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 The SCons Foundation +src/Announce.txt 2013/03/03 09:48:35 garyo |