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+libIDL 0.8.14:
+
+	* Fix build error in configure.in.
+	* Remove CPP_STDINC cruft from configure.in.
+	* Enable silent build rules.
+
+libIDL 0.8.13:
+
+        * Clean up some warnings from sparse/gcc.
+	* Makefile.am: Put local includes first.
+
+libIDL 0.8.12:
+
+        * Fix the build with bison 2.4
+
+libIDL 0.8.10:
+
+        * Fix the build with glib 2.15
+        * Ignore "command-line" in addition to "command line" when handling
+          output from cpp (#474641, Sebastian Bober)
+	* Win32 portability work. (Tor)
+
+libIDL 0.8.9:
+
+	* Add missing braces (Dominique Quatravaux)
+
+libIDL 0.8.8:
+
+	* Don't ship the broken spec file any more (Brian Pepple)
+
+libIDL 0.8.7:
+
+	* Clean up some dead code (Pascal Terjan)
+	* Fix compiler warning (Kjartan)
+	* Don't use deprecated function g_basename() (Kjartan)
+	* Handle IDLN_WIDE_CHAR, IDLN_WIDE_STRING and IDLN_SRCFILE
+	  in IDL_tree_free()/IDL_tree_free_real() (Mark)
+	* Wind32 fixes (Tor Lillqvist)
+	* spec file fixes (Jules Colding)
+
+libIDL 0.8.6:
+
+	* Support for building on Win32 (Tor Lillqvist)
+
+libIDL 0.8.5:
+
+	* use modern automake rather than 1.4 (James Henstridge)
+        * Fix a couple of warnings from sparse (Kjartan Maraas)
+        * Fix parsing of 'const octet' (Jules Colding)
+
+libIDL 0.8.4:
+
+	* Fix aclocal quotation issue (Tomasz K³oczko)
+
+libIDL 0.8.3:
+
+	* Add a -uninstalled.pc file (Laca)
+	* Clobber LC_ALL before invoking pre-compiler (Fernando Herrera)
+
+libIDL 0.8.2:
+
+	* Support new versions of flex (Jody Goldberg)
+
+libIDL 0.8.1:
+
+	* add '_' prefix escaped keyword support (Nick Lewycky)
+	* cygwin build support (Masahiro Sakai)
+	* build fixes (Mark McLoughlin, Thomas Vander Stichele)
+	* autoconf upgrade (Havoc Pennington)
+	* BSD portability fix (Jacob Berkman)
+
+libIDL 0.8.0: stable ABI/API fozen release
+
+	* link against glib (Mark)
+	* build fixes (Jacob)
+
+libIDL 0.7.4:
+
+        * remove deprecated glib functions (Shivram U)
+
+libIDL 0.7.3:
+
+        * dist the spec file (Mark)
+        * gcc 3.0 workaround (Fabrice)
+
+Version 0.7.2
+
+	+ workaround for FreeBSD (Mark)
+	+ update spec file (Ross Golder)
+	+ fix --version and --cflags output (Abel Cheung)
+	+ update build (Mark)
+
+Version 0.7.1
+
+	...
+
+Ancient History:
+
+* Status as of 4/24/99
+
+Version 0.6.8 Released
+
+*** Important Changes in 0.6.8 from 0.6.4 which may affect code ***
+
+- Inhibited nodes are no longer recursively removed, to retain
+substructure.  Once a node is removed, subnodes are not touched (the
+previous behavior I consider a bug, since if you pragma inhibit
+everything inside gets messed up, making traversal there impossible).
+
+** New Features for libIDL 0.6.8 from 0.6.4
+
+- New parse flag: IDLF_INHIBIT_INCLUDES: this causes libIDL to
+implicitly assume the following #pragma inhibits around every included
+file:
+
+#pragma inhibit push
+#include "file.idl"
+#pragma inhibit pop
+
+With this parse flag enabled, the same inhibit effect is achieved
+without needing #pragmas:
+
+#include "file.idl"
+
+- New parse flag: IDLF_INHIBIT_TAG_ONLY: you can opt not to have
+inhibited nodes removed during parse time.  They can be removed later
+by calling IDL_tree_remove_inhibits, which is now a public function.
+
+** Bug Fixes for libIDL 0.6.8 from 0.6.4
+
+- Multiple calls to IDL_parse_filename are now fixed when one of them
+fails.  As a result, we now require flex as a side effect to generate
+the scanner.  You can compile without having flex however, since the
+pre-generated scanner is included in the source distribution.
+
+
+* Status as of 3/23/99
+
+Version 0.6.4 Released
+
+*** Important Changes in 0.6.4 from 0.6.0 which may affect code ***
+
+- Some fields were added to the end of the IDL node structure, and
+IDL_tree_func_data.  Most code shouldn't be affected if you use
+pointers, unless you've hardcoded the struct.  A recompile may be
+necessary if you have hardcoded structs like this.
+
+** New Features for libIDL 0.6.4 from 0.6.0
+
+- Unresolved forward declarations generate warnings now, not errors
+(unless IDLF_PEDANTIC is specified).  These warnings can be turned off
+altogether if the IDLF_IGNORE_FORWARDS parse flag is specified.
+
+- IDL_tree_to_IDL improvements and fixes.
+
+- New function IDL_tree_to_IDL_string works exactly like
+IDL_tree_to_IDL but returns a GString instead.
+
+- More error and warning message improvements.
+
+- XPIDL support is more complete, and is nearing usefulness.
+
+- IDLF_CODEFRAGS and IDLF_PROPERTIES parse flags added to support
+individual enabling without full XPIDL syntax.  If you want the native
+extension, you might as well just enable XPIDL support since you're
+probably going to lose portability anyway.
+
+- Compatibility with standard lex. Although standard lex can be used,
+flex seems to create better and less buggy scanners.
+
+- Miscellaneous fixes the the build process from various people.  If
+you run into problems with undefined symbols in the parser or lexer,
+you might try rm -f stamp-parser and rebuild (hopefully this will be
+fixed in the future sometime, but it's low priority).
+
+
+* Status as of 2/22/99
+
+Version 0.6.0 Released
+
+*** Important Changes in 0.6.0 from 0.5.0 which may affect code ***
+
+- All memory allocated which is received from libIDL must be freed
+with glib free routines, i.e. g_free.  For instance the value from
+IDL_ns_ident_to_qstring should be freed with g_free.
+
+- IDL_tree_func now passes an IDL_tree_func_data struct pointer
+instead of the just the tree node. This gives you the current node,
+the up path of the traversal, and the real up path (from the node's up
+pointer), which is useful since the paths can be different in the case
+of a predefined identifier referenced in a different place. Be sure to
+update your callbacks for 0.6.
+
+- Do not rely on IDLN_* enumeration ordering.  An alternative method
+for using jumptables is mentioned in the IDL header file.
+
+** New Features for libIDL 0.6.0
+
+- Overhauled versioning system, with support for libIDL-config, an
+AM_PATH_LIBIDL Automake macro, and C version defines.
+
+- New functions, including node properties and namespace functions.
+IDL_parse_filename_with_input was added to facilitate porting to
+platforms which don't have a readily available CPP (e.g. Win32).
+
+- XPIDL support is now in place (optionally activated with a parse
+flag).
+
+- Additional support for node suppression with #pragma inhibit.
+
+- Support for Win32.
+
+- Many bug fixes.
+
+
+* Status as of 8/17/98
+
+** Just about everything is working now, except for a few small
+ambiguity cases which may not get detected, but should be easily
+avoidable anyway.  The changeover to using glib is there, and hash
+tables are used extensively now so that the O order has been reduced.
+
+Repository IDs are also generate properly now, along with the three
+pragams, and there is also a declaration spec which can tag certain
+interfaces to not generate tree data.  Error messages have also been
+improved significantly.
+
+The docs are out of date and need revamping.
+
+
+* Status as of 7/18/98
+
+** Most needed features are working to read CORBA v2.2 IDL.  See the
+file BUGS to see what else needs to be done; at this point things like
+speed are low priority, however a changeover to using glib and more
+efficient data structures like sorted heaps or hashes might be in
+order down the line.  I'm not sure how useful libIDL might be apart
+from its use in an IDL compiler, but the docs still need work.
+
+Andrew Veliath