$Id: cisst-0.9.0.txt 75 2009-02-24 16:47:20Z adeguet1 $

cisst package 0.9.0
Release date: 2008-09-05 (September 5, 2008)

- General:
  
  * Code cleanup for gcc 4.2 (warnings)

  * Added support for Solaris with gcc and Sun CC


- cisstCommon:

  * Added constants and functions to handle units (cmnUnits.h).  cisst
    units are gram/millimeter/second/radians.

  * Added basic types derived from cmnGenericObject, cmnDouble,
    cmnInt, ... in cmnGenericObjectProxy.h

  * cmnPath can now use system variables with AddFromEnvironment.

  * Added CMN_UNUSED macro to cmnPortability.h.  Used to tag function
    or method parameters not used in implementation.  Avoids warnings
    and makes it clear that parameter is not used.

  * cmnClassRegister, added Create(other) for dynamic creation using
    copy constructor.


- cisstVector:

  * Removed code introduced for Python wrappers but not used.  All
    transformations were templated by containers and required extra
    convoluted code to handle both fixed size and dynamic containers.

  * Better scheme for memory overlay in transformation classes,
    vctMatrixRotation3 now provides a Ref, ConstRef as do our other
    containers.  This is used in the newly introduced vctFrame4x4.


- cisstNumerical:

  * No major update


- cisstInteractive:

  * On Windows, use .pyd extension, rather than .dll, for Python import
    libraries. This is required for Python 2.5 on Windows.


- cisstOSAbstraction

  * Initial release includes:
    - Thread related classes and function (osaThread, osaThreadId, ...)
    - Time related functions (osaSleep, osaStopwatch, osaGetTime)
    - Mutex class
    - Threaded output stream (used with CMN_LOG macros)
    - Dynamic loader

- cisstMultiTask

  * Initial release includes:
    - Main classes are mtsDeviceInterface, mtsTaskInterface,
      mtsDevice, mtsTask, mtsTaskPeriodic, mtsTaskManager.
    - Library, tutorial and examples in examples/multiTask 


- New deprecated classes and functions:

  * No new deprecated symbols