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• Rev 229 2008-01-11 16:16:45
• Author: dpurdie

• Log message:

  DevTools/core_devl: Checkin by Svn Import
  Major changes:
  * Jats Release Mechanism
  Jats can now release itself. This is not the same a building all of its
  internal components, but it does mean that a new version of JATS can be
  released using the 'standard' mechanism.
  
  Jats releases will be tracked in Release Manager.
  
  A side effect of this is that the labelling scheme will change to align
  itself with Release Manager. ie: package_name_package_version
  
  * Running Jats
  Running Jats from within a ClearCase view is being deprecated.
  Jats should be run from a package present in dpkg_archive.
  This may affect some windows developers.
  
  This release of JATS can be run from ClearCase, but generates a warning.
  Future versions will generate an error.
  
  Refer to MASS-00164 Installing and Using JATS.
  
  Minor changes:
  * Perl Version Check
  Jats will generate a warning if the version of Perl in use is newer
  than the version used in test. Newer versions are not always backward
  compatible. Currently JATS has been extensively tested with 5.8.8.
  
  * Build Directive: BuildVersion
  This directive has been extended to allow the creation of a 'properties'
  file. This file may be used to pass version information into a an ANT
  build.
  
  * Jats Internals
  Minor fix to interwork with Perl version 5.10.
  Perl 5.10 has not been extensively tested - yet.
  
  * Jats Tool: CCbc2
  Added utility to use BeyondCompare (BC2) to compare files in two
  packages defined as ClearCase labels. The utility creates two dynamic views
  and starts BeyondCompare. The views are destroyed at the end of the
  process.
  
  Requires BeyondCompare to be installed in its default location.
  Only works under Windows.
  
  Use jats CCbc2 -help (or -man) for further details.
  
  * Jats test runtime helper scripts set_PLATFORM.sh
  Marked as executable, so that users can run them directly
  
  * Jats test runtime helper scripts set_PLATFORM.bat
  Uses SETLOCAL / ENDLOCAL to prevent environment variables being exported
  into the parent space. This mimics the behaviour of Unix.
  
  * Jats eprog
  Consistent cross-platform handling of programs found in the current
  directory.
  
  * jats tool jats_metrics
  A new utility that will be used by the Automated Build System to collect
  build metrics.