[etch-users] Etch 3.10 released

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

No new features in this release, just a few bug fixes:

- The commands.dtd DTD was too strict, causing etch to reject valid  
commands.xml files in some circumstances

- In some cases files or commands with dependencies on files, with  
some of the files requested on the command line (rather than -- 
generate-all) would trigger a loop between the client and server where  
the server never quite gave the client instructions that resulted in a  
request that the server could complete in one shot.  This would  
eventually hit the client's 10 loop limit and exit with the files not  
updated.  This bug was partially introduced in the 3.8 release and  
made worse in the 3.9 release.

- Not exactly a bug, but the client was spitting out a message about  
updating temporary placeholder files each time in encountered a need  
for one, rather than creating the placeholder once and keeping quiet  
unless the placeholder needed updating.  This was laziness/caution on  
my part about introducing the code to check if a placeholder needed to  
be updated, the client just deleted and recreated it each run.   
However, the messages get annoying quickly, and in many cases clients  
will have some files that never progress beyond the placeholder stage  
on that particular client, so you got the messages forever.  Went  
ahead and wrote the code to check if the existing placeholder was  
correct and use it as is if so.