[Metakit] Metakit 2.4.9.6

[John Fletcher]

Where can I get it?  The web site 

http://www.equi4.com/metakit.html

has 2.4.9.5


John

To:             	Metakit list <metakit at equi4.com>
From:           	Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw at equi4.com>
Date sent:      	Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:22:26 +0100
Subject:        	[Metakit] Metakit 2.4.9.6

> A new release of Metakit has been checked into CVS.
> Change history since 2.4.9.5 attached.
> 
> Enjoy,
> -jcw
> 
> 
> 2006-11-15    ############################################    MK
> 2.4.9.6
> 
>      Please upgrade, this consolidates a year with various fixes.
> 
>      Added some notes to the README about building the Python and Tcl
>      extensions using various approaches.
> 
>      Bumped hardwired Python version number to 2.5 in unix/configure.
> 
> 2006-11-11    More precise file head/tail marker checks
> 
>      The tests for valid head / tail file markers have been relaxed a
>      tiny bit, to allow for future file format changes.  This has no
>      effect on current uses of MK, the file format remains the same.
> 
> 2006-11-11    Reformatted all C++ source files
> 
>      To get rid of some tab/indent problems accumulated over the last
>      few years, I've run all C++ sources through a pretty-print app
>      (SourceFormatX, a shareware Windows app).  These sources are all
>      being checked-in, so the list of affected files is quite large.
> 
>      No semantic changes whatsoever to MK.  All tests pass, as before.
> 
> 2006-10-31    Fixes for the Python binding
> 
>      Fix 64-bit compile with Python 2.5 by Ralf Schmitt, see
>      http://www.equi4.com/pipermail/metakit/2006-October/002236.html
> 
>      Memory leak fix in PWOMapping.h, by Brian Warner, see
>      http://www.equi4.com/pipermail/metakit/2006-October/002229.html
> 
>      Fix 64-bit ptr -> int conversions in {PyRowRef,PyView}.cpp, see
>      http://systemexit.de/repo/metakit?cs=f8f1ef2f6099
> 
> 2006-10-31    Fix int overflow in mapped file check
> 
>      As reported by Max Kaehn, there is a test in column.cpp which is
>      sensitive to integer overflow when two pointers are > 2 Gb apart.
>      This may have been an old problem for anyone who uses the default
>      memory-mapping files enabled.  Embarassing that this was not
>      caught or resolved before, but I was never able to reliably
>      reproduce it.
> 
>      This is a potentially serious problem, upgrading is recommended.
> 
> 2006-10-31    Bring this change log up to date from CVStrac timeline
> 
>      I've decided to not adopt the CVStrac system for this change log,
>      because having this log inside the source tree is more
>      convenient.
> 
>      (08-01) persist.cpp: maintain stable-storage space usage on
>      re-open (05-08) view.cpp: fix resource leak in view.cpp (01-26)
>      PyStorage.cpp: fix metakit.py pathnames are required to
>              be of type str & support unicode filenames in storage()
>      (01-25) mk4tcl.cpp: fix crash in mk::select with -keyword search
>      (01-24) fileio.cpp: fix compile error in fileio.cpp with mingw
>      (01-13) configure.in: tweaks to configure.in to use Tcl stubs
>      when
>              compiling a dynamic Mk4tcl on macosx/darwin
> 
> 2006-01-12    Don't call _open on WinNT, make commit fail on > 2 Gb
> 
>      Fixes for the Dec 5 patch to still always support Win98, thx
>      Matt.
> 
>      Fix ticket #2, return false on commit if files would exceed 2 Gb.
> 
> 2006-01-12    Started using CVStrac for this project, makefile tweak
> 
>      CVStrac is a CVS browser, bug tracking system, and more.  All
>      files have gone through a dummy check-in to complete the
>      transition.  The CVS repository is not affected by this change,
>      but this does mean that CVStrac only really started tracking
>      changes from here on.
> 
>      If it works out well, this CHANGES file will probably be
>      abandoned in favor of the "timeline" feature in CVStrac which
>      offers the same functionality and *much* more (lots of
>      cross-/hyper-links for one).
> 
>      Tweaked Makefile so "make test" does not complain about CVS dir.
> 
> 2005-12-05    Fix the broken hpux change of 2005-09-06
> 
>      It turns out that the 2005-09-06 change, which was rolled back on
>      2005-10-01, was simply incomplete.  Now that it works, it has
>      been adopted on all platforms because it is more portable and  
> equivalent.
>      Thx again Matt.
> 
> 2005-12-05    Better support for UTF-8 file & property names
> 
>      Patch submitted by Matt Newman.  Fixes handling of property names
>      in a description string to support UTF-8 and %'s in names.  Also
>      fix file name handling (convert UTF-8 to native before open).
> 
> 2005-11-22    ############################################    MK
> 2.4.9.5
> 
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