[Omake] Announcing OMake 0.9.8

[Michael Vanier]

Hmm, I compiled and installed omake 0.9.8 and now my "omake clean" target 
doesn't work properly.  It doesn't give any error, it just doesn't clean out the 
files it used to -- only the final executable, or more specifically the symlink 
to the final executable (the executable itself is untouched).  Any ideas why 
this might be happening?  My OMakefiles are very simple.

Mike

Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> We are proud to announce the latest release of the OMake Build System -
> OMake 0.9.8.
> 
> OMake 0.9.8 is a major feature enhancements and bugfixes release; it is
> not fully backwards-compatible. The changes in this release include:
> 
>  * The main change in this release is that the OMake values will now be
>    converted into the shell command lines directly (all the previous
>    versions of OMake should first "flatten" the value into a string and
>    then perform sh-like parsing of the resulting string). In particular,
>    this means that:
>       + All the special symbols in files and directory values will be
>         preserved.
>       + All the spaces inside the array elements will be preserved.
>       + All the special symbols in OMake-quoted values ($"..." and
>         $'...') will be preserved.
>       + If  the first element of the command line is a file value,
>         neither PATH- nor alias-expansion will be performed. Note -
>         there will also be no alias-expansion if the executable value
>         contains quoted parts or starts with a \.
>       + The Shell. aliases will now receive the values passed on the
>         shell command line as is, not the string-expanded version. Also,
>         if some of the arguments are the result of a glob-expansion, the
>         alias function will receive the appropriate file values, not the
>         strings.
>       + OMake 0.9.8 will not be fully backwards-compatible with the
>         earlier releases.
>  * Major redesign of the OMake documentation (using Hevea).
>       + The documentation is significantly expanded, examples added,
>         bugs fixed.
>       + There  are  now  a number of indices, including a index of
>         variables, an index of functions, and an overall index.
>  * OCaml.om improvements:
>       + Implemented a new approach to computing the dependencies in
>         OCaml projects in OMake. In this approach a special version of
>         ocamldep  is used to only extract the list of the external
>         modules a file depends on and then OMake is used to map those
>         modules  to files in the include path. This eliminates the
>         "standard" deficiency of having to generate all the relevant
>         OCaml source files before ocamldep is called. This feature is
>         considered highly expire mental and is disabled by default. Use
>         the OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable to enable.
>       + Added support for the Menhir parser-generator (experimental).
>  * C.om improvements:
>       + Changed the CProgram function to consider LIBS to be the actual
>         library files (_without_ the extension) that need to be linked
>         in.
>       + Improved the C scanner rule on Windows.
>  * LaTeX.om improvements:
>       + BSTINPUTS environment variable joins TEXINPUTS and BIBINPUTS in
>         the list of variables initialized from the OMake's TEXINPUTS
>         variable.
>       + The list of such variables is now configurable (TEXVARS variable
>         contains an array of names).
>  * More control over the OMake output and verbosity.
>       + By default, OMake is now much more silent ("-S --progress" is
>         enabled by default when it outputs to a terminal, and "-S" is
>         enabled in all other cases).
>       + Added a --verbose option that would make OMake very verbose,
>         when needed.
>       + Added an ability to postpone and/or repeat the rule execution
>         output (so that, for example, only the output of the rules that
>         fail is printed, or the output of the rules that failed is
>         repeated at the end of the omake -k execution). This feature is
>         somewhat experimental and might change in the future versions of
>         OMake.
>       + Added the -o option for better control of OMake verbosity.
>  * Added three special .PHONY targets: .BUILD_BEGIN, .BUILD_SUCCESS, and
>    .BUILD_FAILURE. .BUILD_BEGIN is built before anything else in your
>    project. One of .BUILD_SUCCESS or .BUILD_FAILURE is built when the
>    build for your project terminates.
>    Note:
>       + This feature is experimental and is likely to change in the
>         future versions of OMake.
>       + If you want to use these targets, you should probably add them
>         to your ~/.omakerc, rather than adding them directly to each of
>         the projects you work on.
>  * OMake will now save the .omakedb periodically, preventing the state
>    loss in case the OMake process dies unexpectedly (for example, when
>    Cygwin kills OMake after user presses Ctrl-C). The checkpointing
>    interval may be configured both at compile time and via the command
>    line.
>  * The variables such as $< and $@ in rules and % in implicit rules will
>    no longer be expanded to strings; instead they will be passed as Node
>    ("file") values.
>  * Much better handling of the exit function, a number of bugs fixed.
>  * Implicit  rules can no longer have target patterns referring to
>    another directories.
>  * New  functions:  Shell.ln-or-cp,  html-escaped, string-escaped,
>    encode-uri, decode-uri, random, find-targets-in-path.
>  * Added an ability to turn a string into an input channel. This allows,
>    for example, to use an OMake variable as an input to built-in awk
>    without having to write it to a temporary file first.
>  * New flags added to built-in awk and grep.
>  * A large number of other bug fixes and improvements.
> 
> For more information on OMake, please visit the OMake Home Page at
> http://omake.metaprl.org/
> 
> Source and binary packages of OMake 0.9.8 may be downloaded from
> http://omake.metaprl.org/download.html. In addition, OMake may be
> obtained via the GODI packaging system.
> 
> OMake 0.9.8 is still an alpha release. While we have made an effort
> to ensure that it is bug-free, it is possible some functions may not
> behave as you would expect. Please report any comments and/or bugs to
> the mailing list omake at metaprl.org and/or at http://bugzilla.metaprl.org/
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