[ccan] CCAN News for December

[Adam Kennedy]

Yay for conference-oriented development! :)

On 6 January 2011 13:15, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
>   Happy new hacking year, everyone.  Things have slowed a bit with the
> traditional end of decade festivities, but lots of minor improvements to
> ccanlint.
>
>   Highlight this month is tlist: typesafe variant of ccan/list.  It's not
> perfect, but it should be a minimally disruptive change for those used to
> Linux-style list.h.
>
>   I'm giving a talk at linux.conf.au on CCAN, which I'm preparing now.
> Expect most of my hacking this month to be related to that!
>
> Infrastructure:
>        - configurator: tweaks and some new config.h defines.
>        - ccanlint:
>                - We don't use -Werror any more, so we distinguish "failed
>                  compile" from "compiled with warnings".
>                - Report definite memory leaks in tests from valgrind.
>                - Tests run in alphabetical order, so you can order them from
>                  simple to complex.
>                - ccanlint: section in _info replaces old "Fails" section.
>                - Build depends privately if they're not already built.
>                - Lots of minor fixes and cleanups.
>
> New modules:
>        - tlist: typesafe list, inspired by Vegard Nossum.
>
> Changed modules:
>        - daemonize: set stderr to /dev/null, misc infrastructure.
>        - idtree: fixes imported from SAMBA upstream.
>        - list: list_del_from and LIST_HEAD_INIT, misc cleanups.
>        - nfs: now a first-class CCAN module.
>        - rbtree: trbt_delete32() fix from Ronnie.
>        - tdb: simplify tdb_summary for upstream submission.
>        - tdb2: functionally complete, performance improved massively.
>        - typesafe_cb: fix compilation warnings under gcc-4.5.
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
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