v1.5.1

Release 1.5.1

• General
  • Various bug fixes
    • Fixed a bug where -l option didn't work in lcm-logger
    • Fixed a bug where not all compiler flags were being set
    • Fixed a command in the post-install instructions for linux
    • Fixed various compiler warnings
  • Added CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Added documentation for installing LCM
• Build system
  • No longer built with -Werror flags by default
  • Builds with release flags by default
  • Installed version of libchar-2d will be used if possible, rather than always building from
    source
  • Encoding no longer needs to be set in locale (e.g. the LANG environment variable) in order
    to build the Java component
  • Finding Glib with pkgconfig is now supported
  • Added a missing library for lcm-lua on Windows
  • Added meson build system support for some components
• Python
  • Minimum required version is 3.7
  • EventLog now supports a Path argument, rather than just a string
  • Added PEP-517 support (users can now pip3 install .)
  • New wheels uploaded to PyPi, which support for newer versions of Python, macOS, and musl-based
    linux (like Alpine)
  • Typing information now supported via a stub file
  • SIGINT no longer produces an exception when shutting down LCM executables installed via a
    wheel
• lcm-gen
  • Python output uses absolute (package-level) import paths where possible rather than relative
    import paths
  • More comments are included in the generated output for C, C++, Python, and Java
  • The version of lcm-gen is now included in the output
  • Python output now uses the @staticmethod decorator rather than = staticmethod()
  • Python output now exports symbols using Python's redundant alias convention
• lcm-logger
  • Added --disk-quota option