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BRL upgraded to 2.1.30 in brlewis locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis)
Fri Jan 25 12:00:37 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:00:30 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200201251700.MAA18659@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu>
From: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: sofa@MIT.EDU
Just in time for today's IAP activity, 1pm in 1-115:
http://www.mit.edu/iap/brl/
Changes since 2.1.28 (last announced release):
BRL 2.1.30 released 2002-01-23
* Common headers/footers are more easily implemented than
ever: (paste "file.brl"). See the manual for details.
* Stack traces are now trimmed to just the useful part,
eliminating 10-20 confusing lines (still there in an HTML
comment).
* Error messages are more emphasized, reducing temptation to
jump into the stack trace when the error message has all
necessary information.
* A placeholder has been put in linking error pages to what
will soon be an on-line interactive database of error messages
and their causes.
* Dynamically generated functions like brl-html-escape will
now have the right names in error messages.
BRL 2.1.29 released 2002-01-08
* BRL now works with a slightly-patched version of Kawa
1.6.97. See the Kawa NEWS file for optimizations and features
added since 1.6.70, including let-values, define-class,
define-simple-class.
* Kawa-style type identifiers now work inside individual BRL
pages even if they include square brackets (e.g. <char[]>).
Developers are still encouraged to put Java-specific code in
sitedefs.scm.
* Whitespace before the headers in an e-mail message is now
automatically trimmed, allowing more readable code.
* A new syntax, (silent ...), provides a convenient way to
suppress display of values on a BRL page, for expressions
executed for side-effect that BRL doesn't already silence.
* brl-http-header! is now silent by default.
* learnbrl.war will be packaged separately
