- 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