N3_sub/modules/waf/ChangeLog

NEW IN WAF 2.0.9
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* Add dependencies on scriptlet outputs
* Made options optional for cython waftool
* Improve doxygen error handling

NEW IN WAF 2.0.8
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* Improve Windows console encoding outputs on Python 3.6 and Japanese code page #2163
* Improve msvc detection on Python 3.6 and Japanese code page #2155
* Improve moc/rcc flag parsing with msvc #2169
* Improve Eclipse project generation #2166 #2165 #2164 #2149 #2145
* Improve Boost project detection on dpkg-based systems #2146

NEW IN WAF 2.0.7
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* Apply priorities to dynamically-generated tasks #2137
* Fix upcoming Python 3.7 incompatibilities #2126
* Fix Python3 support in extras/xcode6.py #2121
* Improve priority support in extras/swig.py #2137
* Improve support extras/protoc.py #2135
* Improve argument handling in extras/clang_compilation_database.py #2127
* Add glib DBus bindings in extras/gdbus.py #2134
* Avoid name collisions for precompiled headers and libraries with similar names in extras/pch.py #2122

NEW IN WAF 2.0.6
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* Add Task.deep_inputs to enable further dependencies on input file tasks
* Set unit tests to depend on input file tasks instead of timestamps

NEW IN WAF 2.0.5
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* Force unit tests to depend on the executable creation time besides file contents
* Enhance the Eclipse project generator
* Update the cuda examples

NEW IN WAF 2.0.4
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* Enable more advanced warnings of ant_glob on build folders in verbose mode
* Defer node.ant_glob(..., generator=True) evaluation
* Enable 'waf clean' to get the list of files to remove from bld.clean_files
* Define the environment variable WAF_NO_PREFORK to skip pre-forking
* Fix Can't pickle local object '_createenviron.<locals>.encode' exceptions (Python 3.6)
* Improve the Erlang module #2095
* Add task target to parallel_debug outputs #2091

NEW IN WAF 2.0.3
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* Enable install_path=None for Python targets #2087
* Skip empty or duplicates in java user classpath #2084
* Change the unit test summary color scheme to use green and red colors
* Improve the deadlock error message
* Report sys.path values from Context.load_tool to improve error messages
* Cache qrc uic->h conversions to enable qrc re-use across targets
* Output long-running tasks outputs immediately using bld(rule=..., stdout=None)

NEW IN WAF 2.0.2
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* Improve Intel Fortran compiler detection on Windows #2063
* Ensure that the task count starts at 1 in the build outputs
* Add a --pdb option to start pdb on unexpected exceptions #2052
* Fix conflicting qm/qrc re-used output files for multiple targets #2065
* Add java support in protobuf (extras) #2049
* Add a java test example (extras) #2062
* Enable symbol processing for empty targets (extras) #2053

NEW IN WAF 2.0.1
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* Improve the default preprocessor behaviour for gcc/msvc
* Accept task objects in Build.add_to_group for compatibility reasons
* Prevent xcode generator from overwriting existing features #2038
* Fix self.includes data scope #2035
* Fix Node.ant_glob case sensitivity regression #2034
* Fix Logs.verbose options regression #2033

NEW IN WAF 2.0.0
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* Provide a new priority system to improve scalability on complex builds
* Provide TaskGroup objects to improve scalability on complex builds
* Force new files into the build directory by default (use Node objects to bypass)
* Provide built-in support for building over UNC paths
* Simplify the Task class hierarchy; TaskBase is removed
* Display commands as string with "WAF_CMD_FORMAT=string waf build -v"
* Have ant_glob(..., generator=True) return a Python generator
* Accept nested lists and generators in bld(source=...)
* Sort TaskGen methods in alphabetical order by reversing TaskGen.prec order

* Remove 'ut_fun' from waf_unit_test.py
* Remove Node.sig and Node.cache_sig
* Remove the BuildContext.rule decorator
* Remove Task.update_outputs, Task.always_run
* Remove atleast-version, exact-version and max-version from conf.check_cfg
* Remove c_preproc.trimquotes
* Remove field_name, type_name, function_name from conf.check() tests
* Remove extras/mem_reducer.py as a better solution has been merged
* Remove Utils.ex_stack (use traceback.format_exc())