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Version 2.6, released February 12, 2006.
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This release re-instates the Windows makefiles that were accidentally
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omitted from the previous release. There are no changes to the code base.
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Version 2.5, released December 23, 2005.
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This release includes a new function, arg_print_glossary_gnu, that prints
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the syntax glossary in strict GNU format as an alternative to the existing
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arg_print_glossary function which deviates slightly from strict GNU
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conventions. Support for command line arguments with optional values
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(eg: --foo=[val]) has also been added. Some minor bug fixes have been
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included and the argtable documentation has been expanded.
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By far the greatest change has been the migration over to automake
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generated makefiles. It is hoped these will standardise the argtable build
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and install process across all posix platforms. Consequently the tarball
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versioning has changed its format in accordance with automake standards,
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thus this release appears as "argtable2-5" instead of "argtable-2.5".
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This new format more correctly describes this release as version 5 of the
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"argtable2" package, argtable2 being a distinct and separate package from
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the original "argtable" 1.x series so that both the 1.x and 2.x packages may
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co-exist on the same system.
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Another consequence of moving to automake is that libtool versioning of
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the shared library commences with this release. These interface version
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numbers will change independently of the package releases as per libtool
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Version 2.4, released January 31, 2005.
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Added two new argument data types: arg_date for parsing date/time arguments,
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and arg_rex for string arguments against regular expressions.
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Argument parsing was modified to use a local copy of argv[] to prevent getopt
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from reordering the global argv[] as it was prone to do.
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Error reporting was improved to reduce extraneous error messages.
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Incorporated bug fixes to the Windows Nmake files.
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Additional documentation and example code provided.
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Version 2.3, released February 10, 2004.
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This release adds support for dynamically linked libraries on all
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platforms and includes modifications to accomodate the Open Watcom C
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compiler. Bug fixes for string argument handling and memory allocation
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checking are incorporated, and the arg_free function has been
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deprecated in favour of a more robust version called arg_freetable.
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RPM packages are also now available.
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Version 2.2, released December 12, 2003.
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This release fixes a bug in the install script and adds MacOS X (10.3)
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to the list of supported platforms.
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Version 2.1, released November 16, 2003.
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This is the first stable release of the argtable-2.x series. It fixes
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some bugs in the previous beta version and ships with a built-in
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version of getopt_long for those platforms that do not support it
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natively. It has been tested successfully on Linux 2.2 (RedHat 7.0 on
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x86, Debian 3.0 on Alpha), Linux 2.4 (RedHat 9.0 on x86, Debian 2.2 on
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x86, SuSE 8 ES on AMD64), FreeBSD (version 4.8 on x86), NetBSD (version
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1.6.1 on x86), Sun Solaris (version 9 on Sparc R220), Microsoft Visual
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Version 2.0 (BETA), released October 9, 2003.
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Argtable-2.0 is a completely new design. It abandons the argtable-1.x
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style support for arbitrary option tag formats in favour of exclusive
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support for GNU style tags. To this end, it is built on GNU getopt to
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guarantee 100% GNU compatibility. The new design also adds support for
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multiple instances of the same option on the command line, is
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extensible to new types of command line arguments (even custom ones),
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and provides better error reporting mechanisms than were available in
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argtable-1.x. It is also secure against buffer overrun attack from
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maliciously long command line arguments. All in all it is much slicker
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than the original argtable-1.x design despite the restriction to GNU
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style arguments only. Users who require the non-GNU argument tag
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styles are advised to continue using the argtable-1.x versions. Both
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argtable-1.x and argtable-2.x can happily coexist on the same system
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for those who wish to have the best of both worlds.
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Version 1.4, released April 9, 2003.
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Ported argtable to Windows and added a Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
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workspace to the distribution for the benefit of Windows users. The
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code only required one change, which was to delete an errant space from
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a scanf format string!
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Version 1.3, released December 20, 2001.
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Moved argtable to a new home on the Sourceforge site and revamped the
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documentation. Documentation is now created with Doxygen instead of
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c2man. Also fixed some minor bugs in the Makefiles. The source code
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Version 1.2, released August 5, 1999.
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The original makefiles have been replaced by autoconf makefiles. The
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char pointers in the argument table have been redefined as pointers to
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const char. Some of argtable's internal string buffers have been made
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larger to accommodate long command lines, and a bug that occurred when
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program names contained whitespace has been fixed. The documentation has
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Version 1.1, released January 20, 1999.
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This version fixes some cross-platform compilation errors, and saw the
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introduction of the multi-platform configuration. It also saw the
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addition of the arg_record function and a change to the arg_scanargv
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function so that it no longer requires argv[0] to be the first entry of
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the argument table. To maintain backwards compatibility, programs written
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for version 1.0 should now define the macro ARGTABLE_COMPATIBILITY_10
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prior to including the argtable.h header file.
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Version 1.0, released November 13, 1998.
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Argtable's open-source debut.
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