This piece of documentation describes an insideous special case, which
some time ago prevented us from switching to --as-needed linking.
We treat this as a special case (and it is way easier to do so
now, after the reorganisation of our test suite).
deliberately, I've left #948 open to nudge me about writing this doc
This is very arkane, hard to find knowledge about some intricacies
of the dynamic library resolution. Very relevant for Lumiera,
since we use a resolution scheme relative to the location
of the executable. Documenting this stuff was a long-standing issue
a long standing TODO to document the actual start-up sequence, which
is implemented this way since a long time now. There was an unwritten
section in the "Linking and Application Structure", which seems the
apropriate place for this kind of intricate techincal details.
Last week, Benny Lyons was here on visit in munich and he was pondering
the idea of an experimental secondary build system, as a way to learn
more about the source structure of Lumiera. This reminded me to fill
some missing parts of the documentation. Possibly this is also the
right moment to land the GTK-3 transition?
note down some results found out during the C++11 transition.
There is now a clear distinction between automatic type conversion
and the ability to construct a new instance
The XV-Viewer widget in our GUI uses four direct calls
to the X-Lib. This was discovered by strict dependency checking,
as mandated by new Debian policy
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
* 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
Add a page to the 'coding howto' section, listing those boost libraries we're
using heavily, with a short characterisation for each. Plus some informations
about potential problems
