...this will be the second preview release
Lumiera is still in pre-alpha stage, and thus there
are no proper releases, just preview snapshots
from time to time.
But we're providing Debian packages allready
- upgrade the configuration to a current version
- provide a frontpage with cross-links to other documentation
- define a set of modules; relevant classes and files can be
added to these, to create a exploration path for new readers
- fix a lot of errors in documentation comments
- use a custom configuration for the documentation pages
- tweak the navigation, the sections and further arrangements
Note: this drops some backwards compatibility. We're targeting now
roughly the range between Ubuntu-Precise (LTS) and Debian/testing,
with Debian/stable as the reference system.
The naming scheme for Boost-Libraries was adjusted with Boost-1.42
for Unix-Platforms. Now the '-mt' suffix isn't included any more, but
the libraries available through the usual packaging mechanisms can be
assumed to be thread safe.
See also http://issues.lumiera.org/ticket/759
tests used to be defined ad hoc and test definitions
are scattered confusingly over various directories.
Now built some simple rules into the buildsystem
to allow organising the tests into layers and
linking them accordingly.
Note: this switches to building shared objects
for the test classes too, which effectively speeds up
both re-building and re-running of test cases
* rfcs are now all stored in the rfc folder (formerly hold the final rfcs)
* a new rfc_final folder is created
* the state folders (rfc_final|pending|parked|dropped) now contain
symlinks back to the rfc pool
the icon rendering script from Joel had a function
to invoke Inkscape; it seems this was a leftover
from earlier attempts to render the icons.
Now, we seem to rely on lib Cairor solely
Not sure if this works; problem is that the icons
generated from SVG are just dumped into the target
folder, but we miss to generate the respective
installation targets
- use custom builders
- clean up specification of target paths
- generated executable is fully relocatable
- read a bootstrap INI instead of compiled in searchpath
especially this means to use the common well-known names again,
like "Program" "SharedLibrary". The customisation now happens
invisible in LumieraEnvironment.
the installed lumiera exe can even be started...
...well with a bit of cheating: you need to cd into the lib/lumiera
because the PLUGINPATH problem isn't solved yet
