Kconfiglib.git/README.rst, branch v12.0.0

Make 12.0.0 release

2019-06-03T04:55:22Z

Fixes two API issues. Some backwards compatibility breakage was required for the load_config()/write_config() message change, though the only effect on most scripts will be less output on stdout unless/until they're modified. - Commit bf36f5d ("Improve warning control API (with backwards compatibility)") - Commit 55bc8c3 ("Have load_config() and write_(min_)config() return messages") Kconfiglib now also makes the version number available: - Commit 455e366 ("Add kconfiglib.VERSION") These are longstanding issues. I don't know of any other ones that would warrant breaking backwards compatibility. Not going on some API changing spree.

Improve warning control API (with backwards compatibility)

2019-06-03T04:50:06Z

A wart of the warning control API (enable/disable_*_warnings()) is that the current warning settings can't be queried. Querying warning settings is useful in functions that want to temporarily enable/disable some warning and then put things back to how they were. kconfiglib.load_allconfig() ran into this, for example. Make the internal warning control variables public (improve the naming at the same time), and encourage just setting them directly. Keep the old API for backwards compatibility. Also remove _warn_redun_assign() and _warn_override(). They're trivial and were called in a single place.

Make 11.9.1 release

2019-06-01T04:22:48Z

Fixes an obscure rsource crash, in commit 92791a3 ("Fix obscure crash with rsource and $srctree pointing to a symlink").

Make 11.9.0 release

2019-05-31T00:16:52Z

Adds commit 175c1f5 ("Leave unchanged output files untouched"). This avoids updating file modification timestamps when nothing has changed, which can make it easier to avoid triggering redundant rebuilds.

Leave unchanged output files untouched

2019-05-30T22:08:14Z

Before writing a configuration file or header file, compare the old contents of the file against the new contents. If there's no change, skip the write, to avoid updating the file modification time. This might avoid triggering redundant rebuilds depending on how the build system is set up, and could allow for a simpler setup.

Make 11.8.0 release

2019-05-29T00:50:48Z

Adds commit 437c6cc ("Use os.replace() if available in _save_old()"), which gives rename() semantics on Windows, avoiding copying the file. This was cherry-picked out of a larger change re. avoiding touching files whose contents haven't changed. Will come later.

Make 11.7.0 release

2019-05-28T15:10:25Z

Adds commit 3aea9f7 ("Add '# end of ' after menus in .config"), which mirrors a change in the C tools. The compatibility tests now pass again for the latest kernel.

Make 11.6.0 release

2019-05-25T16:46:18Z

Brings the format returned by Symbol/Choice/MenuNode.__str__()/custom_str() closer to how things would usually be written by hand, and removes spammy propagated dependencies from property conditions. Propagated dependencies are still included in the 'depends on ...' line, so no information is lost. Properties without parent deps. propagated to their conditions are now also available as MenuNode.orig_{prompt,defaults,selects,implies,ranges}. - Commit bb33eed ("Strip direct deps. from property conditions in Symbol/Choice/MenuNode.__str__()") - Commit e1da7aa ("Display n/m/y without quotes") - Commit 9f57bf9 ("Use the ' "prompt"' shorthand in __str__()") Also clarifies what KconfigSyntaxError is doing: - Commit 95515d4 ("Clarify that KconfigSyntaxError = KconfigError in the docs").

Make 11.5.0 release

2019-05-22T07:06:05Z

Fixes a minor menuconfig interface bug in commit f962269 ("menuconfig: Fix inconsistent top/bottom scroll offset due to off-by-one"). Some doc tweaks are included as well: - Commit 841ab04 ("Mention that .config can be brought up-to-date via menuconfig/guiconfig") - Commit f8978b0 ("Say "removes" instead of "resets" in the unset_value(s)() docstring")

Mention that .config can be brought up-to-date via menuconfig/guiconfig

2019-05-22T07:04:52Z

Good to know.