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authorDan Gudmundsson <[email protected]>2010-06-11 08:24:06 +0000
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thus constitutes one section in this document. The title of each
section is the version number of Reltool.</p>
+ <section><title>Reltool 0.5.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added function <c>zip:foldl/3</c> to iterate over zip
+ archives.</p>
+ <p>
+ Added functions to create and extract escripts. See
+ <c>escript:create/2</c> and <c>escript:extract/2</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ The undocumented function <c>escript:foldl/3</c> has been
+ removed. The same functionality can be achieved with the
+ more flexible functions <c>escript:extract/2</c> and
+ <c>zip:foldl/3</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Record fields has been annotated with type info. Source
+ files as been adapted to fit within 80 chars and trailing
+ whitespace has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8521</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A new escript, called <c>reltool</c>, has been
+ introduced in order to simplify the usage of the reltool
+ application from makefiles.</p>
+ <p>The handling of applications included in releases has
+ been improved. Applications that are required to be
+ started before other applications in a release are now
+ automatically included in the release. The <c>kernel</c>
+ and <c>stdlib</c> applications are always included as
+ they are mandatory.</p>
+ <p>Applications that are (explicitly or implicitly)
+ included in a release are now automatically included as
+ if they were explicitly included with the incl_cond
+ flag.</p>
+ <p>A new <c>embedded_app_type</c> option has been
+ introduced. It is intended to be used for embedded
+ systems where all included applications must be loaded
+ from the boot script, as these systems does not utilize
+ dynamic code loading. If <c>embedded_app_type </c> is set
+ to something else than <c>undefined</c>, all included
+ applications will be included in both the release as well
+ as in the boot script. If the <c>profile</c> is
+ <c>embedded</c> the <c>embedded_app_type</c> option
+ defaults to <c>load</c>.</p>
+ <p>A new function called <c>reltool:get_status/1</c> has
+ been introduced. It returns status about the
+ configuration in the server.</p>
+ <p>The API functions that may take <c>PidOrOptions</c> as
+ input and actually gets <c>Options</c> does now print out
+ warnings.</p>
+ <p>The internal error handling has been improved. For
+ example <c>{error,Reason}</c> is always returned in case
+ of errors even when the server dies.</p>
+ <p><c>app</c> and <c>appup</c> files has been added as
+ well as a corresponding test suite.</p>
+ <p>Various cleanups has been made in the code and in the
+ documentation.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8590</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
<section><title>Reltool 0.5.3</title>