$Id: cisst-0.7.0.txt,v 1.5 2007/11/12 15:24:01 anton Exp $

cisst package 0.7.0 
Release date: 2007-11-9 (November 9, 2007)

- General:

  * Always require shared libraries when compiling Python wrappers.
    This was true on Windows and Mac OS, we now require it on Linux as
    well.


- cisstCommon:

  * cmnPrintf: Better support of integer types.

  * cmnGenericObject: Added methods for serialization and
    de-serialization.  Added class cmnGenericObjectProxy to easily
    create cmnGenericObjects from simple data types.

  * Added cmnSerializer and cmnDeSerializer.

  * cmnThrow can be used with a string only, no need to always specify
    the exception type (default is std::runtime_error).


- cisstVector:

  * Added vctDynamicNArray classes.

  * For all containers, use a specific engine (faster!) if compact.
    Implementation of IsCompact() moved to container owners for
    consistency and efficiency.

  * Fast copy: Added method FastCopyCompatible to test if FastCopyOf
    can be used.  For matrices, FastCopyOf also looks for compact rows
    or columns.

  * Transformation classes with base class (vctMatrixRotation2,
    vctMatrixRotation3, vctQuaternion, vctQuaternionRotation3, ...)
    are now defined using typedef to avoid replicating constructors.

  * For all matrices, added methods to handle sizes and strides as
    fixed size vectors of 2 elements.

  * Added method SelectFrom() to fixed and dynamic vectors,
    SelectRowsFrom() and SelectColsFrom() to fixed and dynamic
    matrices.

  * For all containers, added Zeros() method to set all elements to 0
    using memset (faster than SetAll).  This works only for simple
    types.
 
  * Better handling of size 0 for dynamic containers.


- cisstNumerical:

  * Replaced non standard type "MatrixSizeType" by "nsize_type" as
    found in dynamic matrices and narrays.  WARNING: This could break
    existing code.


- cisstInteractive:

  * No major update.


- New deprecated classes and functions:

  - Type "MatrixSizeType" in cisstNumerical and cisstVector.  See
    notes re. cisstNumerical.