ChangeLog.txt

Flusspferd Change Log
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Release 0.9
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2009-11-13:
- Add extendLeft and extendRight methods to ByteArray (#160).

2009-10-30:
- object::get_property_attributes API changed.
- changed object to provide an id based API for properties (#155).
- Boost 1.40 required.

2009-10-25:
- Better toString and toSource for native objects (#139).
- Allow enabling the Tracemonkey JIT mode from C++ (#140).
- Add == for flusspferd::value (#141).
- Add push for flusspferd::array (#144).
- Adapt array::set_element to object::set_property interface (#146).
- Renamed exception::empty to excepion::is_js_exception.
- create_array no longer accepts a length parameter.
- create_array accepts an input range for creation (#145).

2009-10-24:
- Remove support for old Spidermonkey versions.
- Constructor of root_* now explicit (#124).

Release 0.8
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2009-10-20:
- Alias 'fs-base' to 'filesystem-base' module

2009-10-17:
- '--interactive' flag to the REPL will now enter interactive mode even after
  call to quit() or an exception is thrown

2009-10-10:
- A largely complete implementation of CommonJS 'filesystem-base' module
  (http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Filesystem/A/0). This is only a proposal, so
  might change.
- Treat JS files as UTF-8

2009-10-04:
- native_function_base object now has a trace() method

2009-09-27:
- repl now prints v.to_source to give better output for objects.

2009-09-26:
- Change how (pure JS) modules are loaded to preserve JIT and isolate scopes
  better
- Enable spidermonkey's strict mode warnings for all modules

2009-09-19:
- Overhauled SQLite3 module (issue #103).

2009-09-20:
- json2.js (http://www.json.org/json2.js) is now loaded to provide an ES5
  compatible JSON object for older spidermonkey

2009-09-19:
- Immature plugins have been removed (and moved into feature branch).

2009-09-10:
- Added bash_completion script for flusspferd.

Release 0.7
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2009-08-31:
- Use new getopt API for parsing interpreter / shell arguments.
- Add platform and xFlusspferdVersion constants to system module.

2009-07-30:
- Add (core) "getopt" plugin and C++ API.

2009-07-19:
- Remove environment plugin. Env variables are now only available via
  require('system').env (CommonJS compatability).

2009-07-04:
- Emacs mode is installed (again) and byte compiled if emacs is found.
- Line editors (libedit / readline / none) can now be selected via the cmake
  LINE_EDITOR option (also, similar to FORCE_PLUGINS, there is now
  FORCE_LINE_EDITOR).

2009-06-22:
- IO.stdin/stdout/stderr removed in favor of the same in the 'system' module.

2009-06-20:
- Added optional GNU/readline support (useful due to bugs in libedit).
- Added --no-global-history command line switch for deactivating the permanent
  history.
- Added --history-file command line switch for setting the history file.

2009-06-19:
- Add -I command line switch for specifying module paths.
- Add -M command line switch for loading modules (with 'require').
- Add permanent history to the shell.
- Add CommonJS 'system' module (https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS/System).

2009-06-18:
- Remove Blob and use Binary everywhere.
- Adapted (method/class) names that contained Blob to use Binary instead.
- Eliminate the IO and XML global variables.

2009-06-12:
- Lower-case module names for included modules (it remains case-sensitive).
- FLUSSPFERD_LOADER gets passed the context object as its second parameter.
- Split FLUSSPFERD_LOADER into FLUSSPFERD_LOADER (2 parameters) and
  FLUSSPFERD_LOADER_SIMPLE (1 parameter).

Release 0.6.1
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2009-06-13:
- Some plugins can now be enabled/disabled (PLUGIN_XXX) and required
  (FORCE_PLUGINS) in cmake.

Releases 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.6
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There was no change log for these releases.