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.SS Version 3.0
.PP
Version 3.0 is fully backwards compatible with earlier versions,
however once a project has been used under 3.0,
it will not be possible to revert, e.g. to version 2.3,
without restoring the project's \[lq]info\[rq] directory from backup.
While this was generally true of previous releases,
any additional state information was usually undo\[hy]able
with
.IR vi (1).
This time the process is much more involved because
the project state files and the change state files
have been combined as a necessary step in implementing branches.
.SS Version 3.0 Major New Features
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Aegis now has a feature known in the literature as long transactions,
also known as branches.  This allows appropriately created changes to be
treated as if they were projects, and thus to have changes made to them.
This allows a hierachy of changes within changes, to any desired depth.
See the
.I Branching
chapter of the
.I "Aegis User Guide"
for more information.
.PP
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The project state files have been merged with the change state files.
This is part of the implementation of branching.
If you have written your own reports, you may need to alter them
slightly.
For example, in version 2.3 and earlier, reports accessed the
project state file using
.RS
.ft CW
.nf
auto p, ps;
p = project[project_name()];
ps = p.state;
.fi
.ft R
.RE
Because the project state has been moved into a change state,
the \fIstate\fP field above now points at a change state description,
and most of the old project information is contained in the \fIbranch\fP
field within it.
Reports access this information as
.RS
.ft CW
.nf
auto p, ps;
p = project[project_name()];
ps = p.state.branch;
.fi
.ft R
.RE
Except for files, which were already present in the \fIcstate\fP,
so access to the project file list need not change.
See the new
.IR aecstate (5)
for more information.
.PP
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The new project command now creates branches to
match the version number specified.
See
.IR aenpr (1)
for more information.
.PP
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The error messages of Aegis have been internationalized.
This affects how you build Aegis, and the environment Aegis runs in.
See the \fIBUILDING\fP file for more information.
The \fIcshrc\fP and \fIprofile\fP shipped with this release
set the LANG environment variable to \[lq]en\[rq] (for English)
if you have not set it;
otherwise ther error messages would be terse and uninformative.
.PP
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The
.I aet (1)
command can now suggest tests to be run.  This is done by correlating
the source files and test files from each change.  See
.IR aet (1)
for more information.
.PP
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There is now an \fIaereport\fP(1) command.
The separates out the report functionality from the main body of the Aegis code,
allowing the report generator to be used in places where more trust is required.
.PP
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There is an intranet Web interface, which is installed automaticly when
the install script discovers a web server.
This interface allows browsing of much of the Aegis meta\[hy]data,
of all publicly accessible projects.
.PP
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There is now an \fIaefind\fP(1) command.  This is very similar to the UNIX
\fIfind\fP(1) command, except that it finds in the unified directory stack
of a change and its project.  The introduction of full branch support
can sometimes mean that finding a file may require looking in more than
two directories; the \fIaefind\fP(1) command makes this simple again.
.SS Version 3.0 Minor New Features
.PP
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There is now a \-No_Pager option,
to prevent listings and help from being redirected to a pager.
There is also a user preference to more thoroughly disable paging,
and a \-PAGer option to override it.
See
.IR aegis (1)
and
.IR aeuconf (5)
for more information.
.PP
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There is now a \-No_PErsevere option to
.IR aet (1),
allowing you to request that
.IR aet (1)
stop after the first test failure.
There is also a user preference to set this permanently if desired,
and a \-PErsever option to override it.
See
.IR aet (1)
and
.IR aeuconf (5)
for more information.
.PP
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The copyright years attribute has been moved from
being a project attribute to a change attribute.
This is consistent with a number of other fields which have transparently
moved from the project state files into the change state files,
as a result of branching support.
See
.IR aeca (1)
and
.IR aecattr (5)
for more information.
.PP
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There is a new \fISearch_Path\fP substitution,
to support builds on branches.
See \fIaesub\fP(5) for more information.
As a side effect,
you can also use it in the \fItest_command\fP field
of the project \fIconfig\fP file,
and thus have a search path to look down for data files for your tests.
.PP
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Test times are now remembered,
so that tests are only run if they need to be.
This allows you to keep working on a test, and Aegis only runs
those that have not yet passed.
.PP
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Aegis now uses \[lq]fingerprints\[rq] to tell if files have changed,
rather than simply relying on file modification time stamps.
While this makes Aegis more robust,
there is one caveat:
it is recommended that 3.0 be
installed when there are no changes in
the 'being reviewed'
or 'awaiting integration' states,
in any project.
.PP
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There is now a log file prefernces control,
allowing users to set their preferred logging behaviour.
See
.IR aeuconf (5)
for more information.
.PP
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It is now possible to specify the filename for new tests on the command line.
See
.IR aent (1)
for more information.
.PP
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It is not possible to specify a pattern for test filesnames.
See
.IR aepconf (5)
for more information.
.PP
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There is now a \fB\-MAXimum\fP option to the \fIaeib\fP command,
allowing you to keep obsolete derived files at integrate begin.
This can avoid long integration build times for large projects.
.SS Version 3.0 Bug Fixes
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Architecture names are now checked a `develop end' time,
to ensure there are no unknown variants.
This fixes the mysterious \[lq]you must build again\[rq] problem.
.PP
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The
.IR aecp (1)
and
.IR aed (1)
commands now take a baseline read lock,
to be more symetric with the
.IR aeb (1)
command which has always done so.
The
.IR aeipass (1)
command takes the complementary baseline write lock,
ensuring the the baseline remains constant for the duration
of builds, file copies, differences and merges.
The manual entries for these commands have all been improved
to document this behaviour.
See
.IR aeb (1),
.IR aecp (1),
.IR aed (1)
and
.IR aeipass (1)
for more information.
.PP
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There are now some reminder scripts in
the library, which can be run from
.IR crontab (1).
These are installed into the
.I \*(D)/remind
directory.
These scripts can be used to remind users of changes in various states,
such as those being developed or being reviewed.
.PP
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All of the commands which accept the
.I \-Edit
option now also accept a
.I \-Edit_BackGround
option,
allowing edit commands to be piped in from the standard input.
.PP
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The
.IR aecp (1)
command now accepts a
.I \-INDependent
option, allowing files to be copied independent of any change
(similar to the
.I \-INDependent
option of the
.IE aet (1)
command.)
See
.IR aecp (1)
for more information.
.PP
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The
.IR aecp (1)
command now accepts a
.I \-Read_Only
option, allowing files to be copied into a change
specifically to insulate it from baseline changes.
Such files must be uncopied before development may end.
See
.IR aecp (1)
for more information.
.PP
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The
.IR aenrls (1)
command is now used
.I only
to convert pre\[hy]3.0 projects into post\[hy]3.0 projects.
This is because the full branching support in 3.0 makes it
more useful to create a new release of a project by
ending development on the branch of the previous release and starting
development of a new branch numbered for the new release.
See the
.I "Branching"
chapter of the
.I "User Guide"
for more information.
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