Hello Jammers.

We've just finished rolling what changes we can into jam to make up the 2.4 release. It is available at:

http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/jam-2.4.tar http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/jam-2.4.zip

(Release notes only)

http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/src/RELNOTES

We've decided to give it the "rc1" (release candidate 1) tag. If nothing compellingly broken is reported back in two weeks, We'll quietly remove the "rc1" designation.

The changes between Jam 2.3[.2] and 2.4 are faithfully noted in the RELEASE notes, but there were a few bugs introduced and fixed during the 2.4-dev stage. These are only mentioned here:

- Change 1587 by rmg@rmg:pdjam:chinacat on 2002/03/25 11:32:53

if ( "" a b ) once again returns true. Caught by Vladimir Prus <gho...@cs.msu.su>

- Change 1539 by seiwald@golly-seiwald on 2002/03/13 15:00:39

Fix definitions of FIncludes/FDefines for OS2 and NT, mistakes caught by Craig McPheeters.

- Change 1537 by seiwald@golly-seiwald on 2002/03/12 16:29:31

Fix to 1319: make jam's &&, &, |, and || operators short circuit as they did before. 'in' now short-circuits as well.

- Change 1489 by seiwald@thin-seiwald on 2002/02/27 23:29:36

Revert syntax of "expr : expr `in` expr" to jam 2.3's "expr : arg `in` list", because:

a) It broke the precedence of `in` so that it was looser than !, parsing "! xxxx in yyy" as '( ! xxx ) in yyy".

b) It didn't allow providing an in line list as "$(f) in a b c".

Note that this release includes only the smallest of outside contributions. Now is the time to examine more closely the major forks of jam to see how much of them can and should be folded back.

Finally: Thanks again to everybody who's contributed to Jam. We are very appreciative. Keep it up!

Richard Geiger Open Source Engineer at Perforce

Christopher Seiwald Jam Developer