$Id: RELEASE-2.3.0,v 1.1 2001/05/29 14:58:02 rv Exp $ Cons 2.3.0 ********** Important visible changes include: - Configurable support for signatures based on file contents has been added via a SourceSignature() method and a SIGNATURE construction variable. IMPORTANT: This changes the format of .consign files. Existing .consign files from prior versions of Cons (e.g., in a Repository) will not interoperate with this version. - Multiple single-character command-line flags can now be concatenated. - Multiple -q options can be used to make the build quieter. - The calling semantics of the semi-internal _Objects method have been changed to take a set of path names, not file references, and return the looked-up file references. This will affect any user-defined methods that call the _Objects method. - A -S option has been used to allow a signature package to be specified. -S md5::debug enables debug messages for Cons MD5 dependency calculations. - A new AfterBuild method can be used to execute Perl code after a target has been evaluated. - The sig::md5::srcsig() method has had its calling sequence changed. A $self argument was added to make the method object-oriented, allowing for better subclassing of the sig::md5 package. - A new RuleSet() method fetches a standard set of construction variables for a Microsoft Visual C environment or a traditional UNIX environment. - A new DefaultRules() method sets the default construction variables returned by the cons::new() method. - Added experimental support for building targets using Perl code references. See the CHANGES file for details and a complete list. General ******* Thanks to Marconi Communications (formerly FORE Systems) management for having transferred the copyright to the Free Software Foundation and for previously having released `cons' under the GNU General Public License (GPL) so that everyone can benefit from it. Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for the infrastructure support for cons. And thanks to the members of the Cons community for the bug reports, patches, discussion, and continued interest. Steven Knight - Development Release Co-ordinator Rajesh Vaidheeswarran - Maintainer