1 # Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Steven Knight
2 # __FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__
5 SCons - a software construction tool
15 - Set PROGSUFFIX to .exe under Cygwin.
19 - Allow a library to specified as a command-line source file, not just
20 in the LIBS construction variable.
22 - Compensate for a bug in os.path.normpath() that returns '' for './'
25 - More performance optimizations: cache #include lines from files,
26 eliminate unnecessary calls.
28 - If a prefix or suffix contains white space, treat the resulting
29 concatenation as separate arguments.
31 - Fix irregularities in the way we fetch DevStudio information from
32 the Windows registry, and in our registry error handling.
36 - Flush stdout after print so it intermixes correctly with stderr
39 - Allow Scanners to return a list of strings, and document how to
40 write your own Scanners.
42 - Look up implicit (scanned) dependencies relative to the directory
43 of file being scanned.
45 - Make writing .sconsign files more robust by first trying to write
46 to a temp file that we rename.
48 - Create all of the directories for a list of targets before trying
49 to build any of the targets.
51 - WIN32 portability fixes in tests.
53 - Allow the list of variables exported to an SConscript file to be
56 - Document the overlooked LIBPATH construction variable.
57 (Bug reported by Eicke Godehardt.)
59 - Fix so that Ignore() ignores indirect, implicit dependencies
60 (included files), not just direct dependencies.
62 - Put the man page in the Debian distribution.
64 - Run HTML docs through tidy to clean up the HTML (for Konqueror).
66 - Add preliminary support for Unicode strings.
68 - Efficiency: don't scan dependencies more than once during the
71 - Fix the -c option so it doesn't stop removing targets if one doesn't
74 - Fix the --debug=pdb option when run on Windows NT.
76 - Add support for the -q option.
80 - Add support for the -u option.
82 - Add .cc and .hh file suffixes to the C Scanner.
86 - Make the scons script return an error code on failures.
88 - Add support for using code to generate a command to build a target.
92 RELEASE 0.04 - Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:09:42 -0600
96 - Significant performance improvements in the Node.FS and
99 - Fix signatures of binary files on Win32 systems.
101 - Allow LIBS and LIBPATH to be strings, not just arrays.
103 - Print a traceback if a Python-function builder throws an exception.
107 - Fix using a directory as a Default(), and allow Default() to
108 support white space in file names for strings in arrays.
110 - Man page updates: corrected some mistakes, documented various
111 missing Environment methods, alphabetized the construction
112 variables and other functions, defined begin and end macros for
113 the example sections, regularized white space separation, fixed
114 the use of Export() in the Multiple Variants example.
116 - Function action fixes: None is now a successful return value.
117 Exceptions are now reported. Document function actions.
119 - Add 'Action' and 'Scanner' to the global keywords so SConscript
120 files can use them too.
122 - Removed the Wrapper class between Nodes and Walkers.
124 - Add examples using Library, LIBS, and LIBPATH.
126 - The C Scanner now always returns a sorted list of dependencies
127 so order changes don't cause unnecessary rebuilds.
129 - Strip $(-$) bracketed text from command lines. Use this to
130 surround $_INCDIRS and $_LIBDIRS so we don't rebuild in response
131 to changes to -I or -L options.
133 - Add the Ignore() method to ignore dependencies.
135 - Provide an error message when a nonexistent target is specified
138 - Remove targets before building them, and add an Environment
139 Precious() method to override that.
141 - Eliminate redundant calls to the same builder when the target is a
142 list of targets: Add a ListBuilder class that wraps Builders to
143 handle lists atomically. Extend the Task class to support building
144 and updating multiple targets in a single Task. Simplify the
145 interface between Task and Taskmaster.
147 - Add a --debug=pdb option to re-run SCons under the Python debugger.
149 - Only compute a build signature once for each node.
151 - Changes to our sys.path[] manipulation to support installation into
152 an arbitrary --prefix value.
156 - Add var=value command-line arguments.
160 RELEASE 0.03 - Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:09:30 -0600
164 - Performance improvements in the Node.FS and Sig.Calculator classes.
166 - Add the InstallAs() method.
168 - Execute commands through an external interpreter (sh, cmd.exe, or
169 command.com) to handle redirection metacharacters.
171 - Allow the user to supply a command handler.
175 - Search both /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for scons directories by
176 adding them both to sys.path, with whichever is in sys.prefix first.
178 - Fix interpreting strings of multiple white-space separated file names
179 as separate file names, allowing prefixes and suffixes to be appended
180 to each individually.
182 - Refactor to move CompositeBuilder initialization logic from the
183 factory wrapper to the __init__() method, and allow a Builder to
184 have both an action and a src_builder (or array of them).
186 - Refactor BuilderBase.__call__() to separate Node creation/lookup
187 from initialization of the Node's builder information.
189 - Add a CFile Builder object that supports turning lex (.l) and
190 yacc (.y) files into .c files.
192 - Document: variable interpretation attributes; how to propogate
193 the user's environment variables to executed commands; how to
194 build variants in multiple BuildDirs.
196 - Collect String, Dict, and List type-checking in common utility
197 routines so we can accept User{String,Dict,List}s all over.
199 - Put the Action factory and classes into their own module.
201 - Use one CPlusPlusAction in the Object Builder's action dictionary,
202 instead of letting it create multiple identical instances.
204 - Document the Install() and InstallAs() methods.
208 - Require that a Builder be given a name argument, supplying a
209 useful error message when it isn't.
213 - Add a "duplicate" keyword argument to BuildDir() that can be set
214 to prevent linking/copying source files into build directories.
216 - Add a "--debug=tree" option to print an ASCII dependency tree.
218 - Fetch the location of the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler(s) from
219 the Registry, instead of hard-coding the location.
221 - Made Scanner objects take Nodes, not path names.
223 - Have the C Scanner cache the #include file names instead of
224 (re-)scanning the file each time it's called.
226 - Created a separate class for parent "nodes" of file system roots,
227 eliminating the need for separate is-parent-null checks everywhere.
229 - Removed defined __hash__() and __cmp() methods from FS.Entry, in
230 favor of Python's more efficient built-in identity comparisons.
234 RELEASE 0.02 - Sun, 23 Dec 2001 19:05:09 -0600
238 - Added the Install(), BuildDir(), and Export() methods.
240 - Fix the -C option by delaying setting the top of the FS tree.
242 - Avoid putting the directory path on the libraries in the LIBS
243 construction variable.
245 - Added a GetBuildPath() method to return the full path to the
246 Node for a specified string.
248 - Fixed variable substitution in CPPPATH and LIBPATH.
252 - Fixed the version comment in the scons.bat (the UNIX geek used
255 - Fix to setup.py so it doesn't require a sys.argv[1] argument.
257 - Provide make-like warning message for "command not found" and
260 - Added an EXAMPLES section to the man page.
262 - Make Default() targets properly relative to their SConscript
267 - Documented CXXFLAGS, CXXCOM, and CPPPATH.
269 - Fixed SCONS_LIB_DIR to work as documented.
271 - Made Default() accept Nodes as arguments.
273 - Changed Export() to make it easier to use.
275 - Added the Import() and Return() methods.
279 RELEASE 0.01 - Thu Dec 13 19:25:23 CST 2001
281 A brief overview of important functionality available in release 0.01:
283 - C and C++ compilation on POSIX and Windows NT.
285 - Automatic scanning of C/C++ source files for #include dependencies.
287 - Support for building libraries; setting construction variables
288 allows creation of shared libraries.
290 - Library and C preprocessor search paths.
292 - File changes detected using MD5 signatures.
294 - User-definable Builder objects for building files.
296 - User-definable Scanner objects for scanning for dependencies.
298 - Parallel build (-j) support.
300 - Dependency cycles detected.
302 - Linux packages available in RPM and Debian format.
304 - Windows installer available.