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@@ -0,0 +1,240 @@ +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 |