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diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt index 9d0e092..db86a71 100755 --- a/src/RELEASE.txt +++ b/src/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,77 +1,73 @@ - A new SCons checkpoint release, 3.1.0, is now available + A new SCons checkpoint release, 3.1.1, is now available on the SCons download page: https://scons.org/pages/download.html - Here is a summary of the changes since 3.0.5: + 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 - - Added variable TEMPFILEARGJOIN to specify how to join arguments written - to temp files used when command lines exceed MAXLINELENGTH when the - command uses $TEMPFILE{...} - - Support for MSVC 2019 - - Upgraded and improved Visual Studio solution/project generation code using the MSVSProject builder. - - Added support for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. - - Added support for the following per-variant parameters to the builder: - - cpppaths: Provides per-variant include paths. - - cppdefines: Provides per-variant preprocessor definitions. + - 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 - - Fix performance degradation for MD5-timestamp decider. NOTE: This changes the Decider() function arguments. - From: - def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni): - To: - def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node): - Where repo_node is the repository (or other) node to use to check if the node is out of date instead of dependency. - - - Enhanced --debug=explain output. Now the separate components of the dependency list are split up - as follows: - - scons: rebuilding `file3' because: - the dependency order changed: - ->Sources - Old:xxx New:zzz - Old:yyy New:yyy - Old:zzz New:xxx - ->Depends - ->Implicit - Old:/usr/bin/python New:/usr/bin/python - - - Changed: Pseudo-builders now inherit OverrideEnvironments. For - example when calling a pseudo-builder from another - pseudo-builder the override variables passed to the first - pseudo-builder call had to be explicitly passed on to the - internal pseudo-builder call. Now the second pseudo-builder call - will automatically inherit these override values. + - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior + wouldn't actually be considered a bug FIXES - - Fix Issue #3350 - SCons Exception EnvironmentError is conflicting with Python's EnvironmentError. - - Fix spurious rebuilds on second build for cases where builder has > 1 target and the source file - is generated. This was causing the > 1th target to not have it's implicit list cleared when the source - file was actually built, leaving an implicit list similar to follows for 2nd and higher target - ['/usr/bin/python', 'xxx', 'yyy', 'zzz'] - This was getting persisted to SConsign and on rebuild it would be corrected to be similar to this - ['zzz', 'yyy', 'xxx', '/usr/bin/python'] - Which would trigger a rebuild because the order changed. - The fix involved added logic to mark all shared targets as peers and then ensure they're implicit - list is all cleared together. - - Fix Issue #3349 - SCons Exception EnvironmentError is conflicting with Python's EnvironmentError. - Renamed to SConsEnvironmentError - - Fix Issue #3350 - mslink failing when too many objects. This is resolved by adding TEMPFILEARGJOIN variable - which specifies what character to join all the argements output into the tempfile. The default remains a space - when mslink, msvc, or mslib tools are loaded they change the TEMPFILEARGJOIN to be a line separator (\r\n on win32) - - Additional fix to issue #3135 - Also handle 'pure' and 'elemental' type bound procedures - - - Fix handling of Visual Studio Compilers to properly reject any unknown HOST_PLATFORM or TARGET_PLATFORM - - Enable LaTeX scanner to find more than one include per line - + + - 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. Copyright (c) 2001 - 2019 The SCons Foundation -src/RELEASE.txt e724ae812eb96f4858a132f5b8c769724744faf6 2019-07-21 00:04:47 bdeegan +src/RELEASE.txt 72ae09dc35ac2626f8ff711d8c4b30b6138e08e3 2019-08-08 14:50:06 bdeegan |