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INSTALL

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
+Installation Instructions
-Foundation, Inc.
+*************************
 
-   This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free
+Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
 unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
 
 Basic Installation
 ==================
 
-   These are generic installation instructions.
+These are generic installation instructions.
 
    The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
@@ -67,9 +70,9 @@ The simplest way to compile this package is:
 Compilers and Options
 =====================
 
-   Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
+Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that the
-the `configure' script does not know about.  Run `./configure --help'
+`configure' script does not know about.  Run `./configure --help' for
-for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
+details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
 
    You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
 by setting variables in the command line or in the environment.  Here
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ is an example:
 Compiling For Multiple Architectures
 ====================================
 
-   You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
+You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
 same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
 own directory.  To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
 supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.  `cd' to the
@@ -99,19 +102,19 @@ for another architecture.
 Installation Names
 ==================
 
-   By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
+By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
 `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc.  You can specify an
 installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
-option `--prefix=PATH'.
+option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
 
    You can specify separate installation prefixes for
 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you
-give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
+give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX', the package will
-PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+use PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
 Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
 
    In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
-options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
+options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
 kinds of files.  Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
 you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
 
@@ -122,7 +125,7 @@ option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
 Optional Features
 =================
 
-   Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
+Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
 `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
 They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
 is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The
@@ -137,11 +140,11 @@ you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
 Specifying the System Type
 ==========================
 
-   There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
+There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out automatically,
-automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
+but needs to determine by the type of machine the package will run on.
-will run on.  Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
+Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the _same_
-_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
+architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints a
-a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
+message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
 `--build=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system
 type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
 
@@ -167,9 +170,9 @@ eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
 Sharing Defaults
 ================
 
-   If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
+If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share, you
-you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
+can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives default
-default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
+values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
 `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
 `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists.  Or, you can set the
 `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
@@ -178,7 +181,7 @@ A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
 Defining Variables
 ==================
 
-   Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
+Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
 environment passed to `configure'.  However, some packages may run
 configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
 variables may be lost.  In order to avoid this problem, you should set
@@ -192,8 +195,7 @@ overridden in the site shell script).
 `configure' Invocation
 ======================
 
-   `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
+`configure' recognizes the following options to control how it operates.
-operates.
 
 `--help'
 `-h'

NEWS

@@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
-Configure can disable stack trace, if you have problems compiling it on your machine. It is also possible to compile without log4cxx.
+Please note that the inheritance changed for the exception classes:
- 
+There is no more a diamond like multiple inheritance nos, but
-New Feature: Templates are now used for automated resource management
+exceptions such as mrw::out_of_range no more inherit from their
-New Feature: Command line argument evaluation and SmartPointer
+std::out_of_range correspondant. All exceptions still inherit from
+mrw::exception which inherits from std::exception.
+
+New feature: C++ standard extensions. It provides some features that
+are missing in the C++ standard, such as shift operator for string and
+container.
+
+The naming of libraries was not intuitive before, e.g. the library
+from mrw-c++-0.93 was named libmrw.so.0.0.93 instead of
+libmrw.so.0.93.0 and release mrw-c++-1.5 would have been named
+libmrw.so.1.0.5. That's a problem with the unconventional version
+naming in the libtool. The naming in libtool may make sense only, if
+you have several completely independent libraries in the same
+package. Now the naming is as it should be, the package and the
+library have three digits, increasing the least means no change in
+behaviour, e.g. little bugfix, increasing the middle means more
+features, but the interface remains backward compatible and increasing
+the first number means, that the interface has broken backwards
+compatibility, i.e. features have been removed.