$usepop/CHANGES.txt
Aaron Sloman
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/
See also $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
The latest version of this file should be at
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.62/CHANGES.txt
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.62-amd64/CHANGES.txt
20 Feb 2009
Two changes to popvision, described in
$usepop/pop/packages/popvision/README.bham
popvision/lib/Xcolour_to_rgb.p
added directory '/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt'
to Xcolour_to_rgb_filelist
popvision/lib/sunrasterfile.p
Installed Jack Hollingworth's fix for updater
of sunrasterfile for use on little-endian machines.
2 Dec 2008
Installed changes designed by Waldek Hebisch to enable poplog to
run without use of 'setarch' on linux with security settings.
Source files altered:
$popsrc/amain.s
$popsrc/initial.p (just to change version)
$popexternlib/c_core.c
Altered installation scripts so that they no longer test for
'setarch' requirement.
For other minor changes see packages/CHANGES.txt
20 Jun 2008
In LIB VED_DIRED
Commented out the default key settings using vedsetkey, because
(a) they caused autoloading errors, and (b) they could interfere
with other uses of ^X in Ved commands.
See HELP * DIRED
5 Jun 2008
Copied latest version of packages directory to amd64 poplog
Rebuilt saved images
5 May 2008
Minor change to vedlatex findcites
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
1 May 2008
Minor change to lib popmatlab, to make HELP popmatlab work
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
31 Mar 2008
Another minor change to lib findcite.p, described in
$usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
27 Feb 2008
Minor change to lib findcite.p, described in
$usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
7 Feb 2008
Altered $usepop/pop/ved/src/vdfiles.p
to avoid annoying bug: ved would not recognize that an existing
file was being re-edited.
4 Feb 2008
Altered version number to v15.6102
32-bit Poplog
Altered startup demos to work properly with setarch when
necessary. For some reason alias definitions were not imported
from sourced bash files.
Added documentation for ved_highlight for simple highlighting of
text files, and made the precise highlight command to be used
user-definable.
See REF * ved_highlight
Added command $popsys/popsetarch for running commands
with the 'setarch' prefix, e.g. things like pglink, pglibr
See $usepop/pop/packages/CHANGES.txt
25 Dec 2007
Modified the instructions for Ubuntu users in here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.61
Modified the
CHECK_LINUX_FACILITIES
script to draw attention (if necessary) to the instructions on
the poplog web site for installing required instructions for
Ubuntu users in here
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/v15.61
Made the poplog startup scripts and some of the system scripts
use 'bash' instead of 'sh', as the latter is linked to 'dash'
not bash on Ubuntu, which can cause problems.
22 Nov 2007
Added autoloadable file LIB ved_highlight
$usepop/pop/lib/ved/ved_highlight.p
ENTER highlight
Goes through the current file underlining all the syntax
words apart from brackets and punctuation symbols.
This can be undone using ENTER strip
01 Oct 2007
Tidied up $popsrc/unix-dir.p
Changed pop_internal_version to v15.6101 in $popsrc/initial.p
29 Sep 2007
Installed new version of $popsrc/unix_dir.p with changes provided
by Waldek Hebisch to overcome problem accessing current directory
reported in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS
18th Feb 2004
Also rebuilt basepop11 and corepop in $popsys
Cleaned up $usepop/pop/packages/com
11 Sep 2007
Altered $usepop/INSTALL/poplog2.sh and $usepop/INSTALL/poplog2
(used to create $usepop/bin/poplog.sh and $usepop/bin/poplog,
respectively) so that they do a more sensible check whether to
use existing $poplib, find ~/Poplib or ~/poplib, or use ~ if
home directory contains init.p or vedinit.p and otherwise
default to $usepop/Poplib
The scripts are also altered to test whether to use setarch or
not to execute commands.
10 Sep 2007
Altered $popcom/popenv and $popcom/popenv.sh NOT to set poplib
to default to ~
Some minor glitches in the installation process have been fixed,
by editing the main install script.
$popsrc/syscomp/os_comms.p has been altered to generate a
'bash' script rather than a 'sh' script for re-linking
See also
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes
14 Apr 2007
Copied stuff from Web eliza to packages/teaching/lib/elizaprog.p
11 Apr 2007
Now version 15.61
New install mechanism, including get-and-install-scripts
new $popexternlib/c_core.c allows mklibpop to run on
recent versions of gcc
patches for Lesstif as described in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS
minor changes for ved and other utilities in
$usepop/pop/packages
(Still work to be done cleaning up packages and fixing
headers)
29 Mar 2006
Altered ved_lockfile so that the revised version of discappend
checks for locks only if given a string argument.
29 Mar 2006
Altered POPVISION: removed '-l' flag from exload commands
straight_hough.p
canny.p
float_arrayprocs.p
lapack.p
This seemed to be needed to prevent the following warning in recent
versions of linux
;;; Warning: can't open shared object /usr/lib/libm.so (Inappropriate ioctl for
;;; device)
29 Mar 2006
Altered RCLIB. Added rc_get_coords_from to allow a method like
rc_get_coords to be used without warping the mouse pointer.
See HELP RCLIB/rc_get_coords_from
29 Mar 2006
Fixed documentation flaw in REF objectclass
There were two entries for wrapper_kernel. One of them should have
been labelled 'wrapper_invoker'.
1 Jan 2006
More minor tidying up of packages and a small change to rclib.
See $usepop/pop/packages/rclib/help/rclib_news
11 Jul 2005
Slightly tidied up some of the code and documentation in
pop/packages/vedmail
27 May 2005
Fixed the script $usepop/bin/demos/simagent-demo to use
'compile' instead of 'load', because the latter can have
trouble reading in path names that include things like
'-05-', which get read as '-5-'
23 Feb 2005
Undid changes in two files made in 1999 to make them work with
Lesstif. Changes no longer needed.
pop/x/pop/lib/Xm/xmTextWidget.p
pop/x/pop/lib/Xm/xmTextFieldWidget.p
19 Feb 2005
Added lib generate_category to pop/packages/teaching/lib
(Forgot to include it previously. It is needed for
teach storygrammar, and used to be in $local/lib)
12 Feb 2005
Bug and Fix reported by Waldek Hebisch
Currently Poplog can handle at most 255 lvars. However it seems
that there is no check for tha limit in the incremental compiler
(there is a check in popc). AFAICS this couses the lisp problem
posted in comp.lang.pop
Below a patch that implement the check:
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 vm_conspdr.p
--- src/vm_conspdr.p 10 Feb 2005 20:28:24 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ src/vm_conspdr.p 12 Feb 2005 17:53:46 -0000
@@ -1177,6 +1177,9 @@
Incr_lab_refcount(asm_exit_lab);
+ if _Nframewords _gr _16:FF then
+ mishap(0, 'PROCEDURE STACK FRAME TOO LARGE');
+ endif;
;;; first instruction creates stack frame on entry
Cons_inst(I_CREATE_SF, 1) :: codelist -> codelist;
17 Jan 2005
Contents of $usepop/INSTALL revised,
with new linking/rebuilding scripts
See $usepop/INSTALL/INSTALL.txt
Moved $usepop/man/bin to $usepop/bin
Changed default $poplocal to be $poplogroot, i.e.
the directory above $usepop
Moved $local/setup/Poplib to $usepop/Poplib
Contains default Xdefaults.poplog, init.p,
vedinit.p and others.