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Changes to m4/NEWS,v
From: |
Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Changes to m4/NEWS,v |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:09:06 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/m4
Module name: m4
Changes by: Eric Blake <ericb> 07/01/21 04:09:06
Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.36
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -b -r1.36 -r1.37
--- NEWS 15 Jan 2007 14:04:26 -0000 1.36
+++ NEWS 21 Jan 2007 04:09:06 -0000 1.37
@@ -192,10 +192,14 @@
** Other changes
*** The syntax of frozen files format V2 has been improved to save
- additional state.
- - FIXME: format 2 still needs to be tweaked to allow complete ASCII
- representation and to catch any more missing state; once 2.0 is released,
- any further changes would introduce format 3.
+ additional state. This includes the 'R' directive for default regular
+ expression syntax. Also, a V2 file can now be represented completely
+ in ASCII, thanks to escape sequences. Unfortunately, files frozen by
+ M4 1.4q that contain \ in macros cannot be read by 1.9b, but since 1.4q
+ was not widely distributed, this is not expected to be much of an
+ issue, and comes with the territory of using a beta release.
+ - FIXME: format 2 still needs to catch more missing state; once 2.0 is
+ released, any further changes would introduce format 3.
FIXME: include the (long) list of changes in 1.4.x that were not already
in earlier betas.
- Changes to m4/NEWS,v, Eric Blake, 2007/01/03
- Changes to m4/NEWS,v, Eric Blake, 2007/01/06
- Changes to m4/NEWS,v, Eric Blake, 2007/01/15
- Changes to m4/NEWS,v,
Eric Blake <=
- Changes to m4/NEWS,v, Eric Blake, 2007/01/23