-Changes in bitbake Trunk:
- -kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
- -kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
- -the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
- downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
- to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
- -Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
- persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
- -Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
- additional parameters
- -Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
- each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
- storage
+Changes in BitBake 1.3.x:
+ - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
+ - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
+ - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
+ - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
+ - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
-Changes in bitbake 1.2.1:
+Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
+ - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
+ development of new Fetchers.
+ Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
+ - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
+ (CVSDATE).
+ Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
+ - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
+ Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
+ - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
+ BitBake Shell
+ - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
+ a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
+ - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
+ to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
+ file can not be found.
+ - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
+ courtsey pHilipp Zabel
+ - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
+ - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
+ this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
+ (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
+
+Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
+ - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
+ - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
+ - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
+ - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
+ - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
+ - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
+ - Update the bitbake usermanual
+
+Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
+ - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
+ - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
+ - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
+ - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
+ - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
+ downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
+ to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
+ - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
+ persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
+ - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
+ additional parameters
+ - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
+ each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
+ storage
+
+Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
-ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
+ ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
- -Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
-get a instance of a data class
- -bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
- -Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
- -Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
+ - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
+ get a instance of a data class
+ - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
+ - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
+ - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch