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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2019-11-16 13:01:16 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2019-11-16 13:01:16 +0200
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+Version 0.12.0
+
+ * Support for creating new projects with existing files.
+
+ The bdep-new command now also recognizes and handles the following
+ existing filesystem entries in the project root:
+
+ .git -- assume VCS is already initialized and is Git
+ LICENSE -- try to guess the manifest license from contents
+ README.md -- try to extract the manifest summary line from contents
+
+ Overall, the idea is to streamline the workflow where one creates a
+ project on one of the hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, etc) and then
+ initializes it with bdep-new.
+
+ Also, to this effect, specifying the project name is now optional and if
+ omitted, the current working directory (or --output-dir, if specified) is
+ assumed to be the project name.
+
+ An example of this streamlined workflow:
+
+ $ # create project with LICENSE and README.md on a Git hosting service
+ $ git clone .../libhello.git
+ $ cd libhello
+ $ bdep new -t lib
+
+ Finally, with this change it now makes sense to have support for pre-
+ creation hooks (--pre-hook) in addition to post-creation (--post-hook).
+
+ * Support for default options files (aka tool config files).
+
+ See the bdep-default-options-files(1) help topic for background and the
+ DEFAULT OPTIONS FILES section in each command's man pages for specifics.
+
+ * New bdep-new no-install project type sub-option.
+
+ In particular, this should be useful when creating *-tests packages.
+
+ * The C library projects created by bdep-new are now portable.
+
+ Specifically, the use of fmemopen() was replaced with tmpfile().
+
+ * The pre and post-creation hooks now make use of portable builtins.
+
+ To instead use a system-provided program, prefix the name with `^`, for
+ example:
+
+ $ bdep new --post-hook "^cat --squeeze-blank .../.gitignore >>.gitignore"
+
+ See bdep-new(1) for details.
+
+ * Ability to specify <pkg-args> in the bdep-init command's -A and -C forms.
+
+ * Ability to keep/update/remove the current tag in the bdep-release
+ command's revision mode.
+
+ Note also that previously the default was to update while now it is to
+ keep.
+
+ * Ability to have multiple forwarded configurations.
+
+ The new constraint is that such configurations should not have any common
+ packages (a package's source directory cannot be forwarded to multiple
+ configurations).
+
+ * New bdep-submit --forward option.
+
+ This option instructs bdep-submit to use each package's forwarded
+ configuration in order to prepare the distributions. This help with setups
+ where there is no single configuration that has all the packages (such as
+ a build system module project).
+
+ * New bdep-init --no-sync option.
+
+ This allows postponing initialization in the build configurations to a
+ later explicit bdep-sync. One subtle difference with such an explicit sync
+ is that it will be performed without having the project's database open,
+ which can be important if the initialization triggers an implicit sync
+ (via a hook) of a project that uses the same database (as is the case with
+ build system module projects).
+
Version 0.11.0
* The bdep-new command now by default adds a README.md template. This can be