(e.g. create-directory&parents),
- introduced the new name "install-lib" for the structure of the
installation library (the old name, "install", is still there but
deprecated)
(equivalent to a constant function) everywhere,
- create-directory&parents is now independent from the installation
library and could be reused in other contexts,
- incorporated first part of Martin's changes, which fix a problem
with install-string: it now accepts optional permissions, and does
not create a file in a dry run.
- improved the "use hint" displayed at the end, and moved the code
producing it to a separate function,
- made "--help" work even when no "pkg-def.scm" file is found.
explicitely in all paths,
- check locations given by the package installation script, and fail
if one is unknown,
- added "install-lib-version" extension, so that package installation
scripts can explicitely specify which version of install-lib they
need,
- added a message which is printed at the end of a successful
installation and indicates how to set SCSH_LIB_DIRS,
- provided a way to "turn off" boolean options like --force, by
providing an explicit "=no",
- replaced a few calls to "error" by calls to
"display-error-and-exit", to try to be consistent and use "error"
only for "internal" errors not due to the end user,
- removed "platform" parameter from layouts, not needed anymore since
the "lib" location was made platform-independent a long time ago,
- documented --no-user-defaults.
- added "exclude" option, to exclude some files,
- parse layouts *after* processing the options,
- changed "display-error-and-exit" to not use "format" anymore.
- display an error message when an unknown layout is given,
- the version number in "define-package" is now quasi-quoted,
- added "install-string" to install an arbitrary string in a file,
- forbid relative prefixes.
functions, which provide support for creating the package-loading
script,
- added a code template to load libtool's ".la" files, stolen from
scsh-yp (by Eric Knauel),
- added "--verbose" option,
- preserve permissions of copied files/directories, and use a
function to obtain permissions for new directories.
implied a complete rewrite of command-line parsing),
- added "--non-shared-only" option, to install only platform-specific
files,
- changed option "--install-prefix" to "--dest-dir", and modified its
behaviour so that it now really behaves like DESTDIR,
- changed the meanining of the "lib" location, which must now contain
one directory per supported platform,
- added (exported) function "get-option-value" which returns the value
of a command-line options; this subsumes "is-running-dry?" and
"with-optional-part?", which were consequently removed,
- commented most functions.
- removed query functions, which do not belong to the installation
library anyway, and which will have to be redone for layouts,
- replaced functions "package-installation-dir" and
"package-installation-staging-dir" by "get-directory",
- changed "install-file" & friends for layouts,
- added "install-directory-contents",
- rewrote option parsing code,
- slightly adapted David Frese's code.
michel-schinz