CVSROOT: /sources/m4 Module name: m4 Changes by: Eric Blake <ericb> 07/01/21 04:09:06
Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.36 retrieving revision 1.37 diff -u -b -r1.36 -r1.37 --- NEWS 15 Jan 2007 14:04:26 -0000 1.36 +++ NEWS 21 Jan 2007 04:09:06 -0000 1.37 @@ -192,10 +192,14 @@ ** Other changes *** The syntax of frozen files format V2 has been improved to save - additional state. - - FIXME: format 2 still needs to be tweaked to allow complete ASCII - representation and to catch any more missing state; once 2.0 is released, - any further changes would introduce format 3. + additional state. This includes the 'R' directive for default regular + expression syntax. Also, a V2 file can now be represented completely + in ASCII, thanks to escape sequences. Unfortunately, files frozen by + M4 1.4q that contain \ in macros cannot be read by 1.9b, but since 1.4q + was not widely distributed, this is not expected to be much of an + issue, and comes with the territory of using a beta release. + - FIXME: format 2 still needs to catch more missing state; once 2.0 is + released, any further changes would introduce format 3. FIXME: include the (long) list of changes in 1.4.x that were not already in earlier betas.
