2016-04-11 23:54:15 +02:00
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NEW IN WAF 1.9 preview 1
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2016-03-06 13:19:14 +01:00
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* General enhancements:
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- Add the tool 'nobuild.py'
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- Remove qt4 and kde4 from the default modules
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- Have Clang detected first on many platforms, in particular on FreeBSD #1528
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- Remove Node.cache_sig and Node.sig so that dependencies are on file contents #1580
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- Change cflags in the beginning / cppflags at the end #1505
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- Merge ${FOO}${BAR} flags in commands executed without a shell (no space added)
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- Interpret empty command-line defines as integer values #1704
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2016-03-07 23:38:14 +01:00
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- Waf tools are not cached on "waf configure" by default anymore; pass conf.load(.., cache=True)
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Enable a consistent progress bar output #1641
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2016-03-25 14:20:57 +01:00
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- New --profile command-line option
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Add ${VAR?X} constructs in script expressions to enable simple conditional outputs
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- Enable 'waf dist' to package arbitrary symlinks in tarballs #1719
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2016-04-22 19:27:22 +02:00
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- Enable regexp objects in @extension besides strings for file extensions
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2016-03-06 13:19:14 +01:00
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* Performance highlights:
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- Reduce the key size in bld.task_sigs by adding bld.node_sigs and bld.imp_sigs
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2016-04-01 23:27:46 +02:00
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- Remove __hash__ and __eq__ from Context, Node and Task #1629
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2016-03-06 13:19:14 +01:00
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- Make lazy visual studio detection the default
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Remove the uses of run_once that can consume a lot of memory
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- Enable pre-forked builds by default to achieve faster builds, up to 2x speedup on short-lived processes
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2016-03-06 13:19:14 +01:00
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* API changes:
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2016-04-03 11:08:00 +02:00
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- The minimum Python version required is Python 2.5
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Remove the duplicate split() functions from Utils
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2016-03-06 13:19:14 +01:00
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- Remove the command called "update"
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- Add Task.get_cwd()
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- Remove Utils.nogc
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- Modify Utils.run_once so that it accepts a list of *args
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Rewrote the main task consumer in Runner.py for performance purposes
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2016-03-17 22:56:34 +01:00
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- Use relative paths in apply_incpaths by default (and absolute ones when paths cross drives)
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2016-03-18 19:54:31 +01:00
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- Remove Configure.err_handler
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Remove TaskBase.attr() which was never used
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2016-03-25 11:50:32 +01:00
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- Task.sig_vars, Task.sig_explit_deps and Task.sig_implicit_deps return None
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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- Better consistency between check_cfg and check_cc variables
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- Subclass waflib.Build.ConfiguredContext to enable configuration-dependent user commands
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2016-04-16 13:04:12 +02:00
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- Remove Task.dep_vars as it is never used (define Task.vars on instances if necessary)
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2016-04-22 19:27:22 +02:00
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- task_gen.mapping is not defined by default on instances anymore, but instances can
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still define their own mappings to override the defaults, but in that case all mappings
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must be present. This feature was not used in Waf 1.8.
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2016-04-11 23:28:33 +02:00
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