Developer Todo

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.1.5

Notes:
This will be the last release with a Slackware package.
There will only be source releases from this point on unless
there is an overwhelming requirement for it.

And no, this is not related to Slackwares recent financial
woes ;)...it's just because I'm lazy.

Changes:
* Added a binary database format. The default is still XML, but you can 
  change this using the new --database-loaders option. You can transparently
  convert your existing XML databases to binary format (or vice-versa) by
  simply changing the load order. For example, to change from XML to binary,
  put this in your ~/.todorc: database-loaders binary,xml
  The next time you modify an XML format database, it will be saved in binary 
  format. The man page has more information. I recommend only using the binary
  format if you are actually having performance problems, as if something
  goes awry, manually fixing the XML database is *much* easier. But if you do
  use it, it might be an idea to use it in conjunction with --backup.
* Added user-defineable formatting for both display output and TODO generated
  output. This is cool. Look for the section FORMATTING in the man page.
* Added a new filter, which I've wanted for ages. It constists of a single '-', 
  '+' or '='. A '-' stops display of all items except those explicitly specified
  in the rest of the filter whereas a '+' overrides all other filters to display
  all items. A '=' is the default behaviour. This is brilliant if you want
  to narrow the view down to just one item: todo --filter -,29 (*Note*: Slightly
  superceded by the modification to the semantics of numeric filters, which now
  display *only* the numbers specified if the = (or no) prefix is used - see
  two points down for more information).
* Modified the numeric filters. Ranges can now be specified by doing this:
  todo --filter 1-20. If a '-' sign precedes the range it explicitly excludes
  all these items. This can also be used in most other places indices are used.
  ie. todo --done 10.1-20 would mark items 10.1 through 10.20 as done.
* Modified behaviour of numeric filters slightly. If prefix is '=' or none,
  *only* those items are displayed. Before, this was a nop.
* Patch to todorl.h courtesy of Philippe M. Chiasson that fixes compilation
  problems on RH 7.0.
* Priority defaults to medium if a blank line is entered at the "priority>"
  prompt (thanks to Alexei Gilchrist for this idea, along with quite a few
  others :))
* Removed --fallback-database - the semantics were too clunky and generally
  confusing.
* Added --global-database <filename> and -G,--global to replace 
  --fallback-database. Basically, you specify a file with --global-database
  (defaults to ~/.todo_global) then whenever you pass -G or --global to todo it
  will use the global database. Much simpler than the way --fallback-database
  behaved. This idea was courtesy, once again, of Alexei Gilchrist. Good stuff!
* todo can now automatically backup the database to a user specified number
  of levels. Use the option --database [<n>] to do this, where <n> is the
  optional number of revisions to keep (defaults to 1). This option is best
  specified in your ~/.todorc.
* Numbers can once again be used to specify priorities when entering them from
  the 'priority>' prompt (requested by Alexei Gilchrist).