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- 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
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