$Id: cisst-0.5.0.txt 75 2009-02-24 16:47:20Z adeguet1 $

cisst package 0.5.0 
Release date: 2006-12-4 (December 4, 2006)

- General:

  * New license.

  * Organized binaries per directory, i.e. libraries, tests and
    examples have their own bin and lib directories.  To set all the
    different paths, created cisstvars.sh, .csh and .bat.  On Windows,
    added a CMake option to create environment variables.

  * Updated and tested for Microsoft Compiler 8.0 (aka Visual Studio
    2005 or Visual Studio Express) and gcc compiler on Intel based
    Mac.

  * Added scripts and documentation (in private section) re. setting
    up test sites for Dart2.


- cisstCommon:

  * Major update of class registration macros to support templated
    classes with better support for Dll creation on Windows.
  
  * More types supported by cmnTypeTraits and cmnRandomSequence.

  * Added class cmnPrintf for formatted outputs (and counterpart in
    cisstVector vctPrintf).

  * Improved support for STL like iterators for cmnClassRegister and
    cmnObjectRegister.  Internally both classes rely on std::map.


- cisstVector:

  * Added methods AddProductOf, ProductOfElements, MaxAbsElement,
    MinAbsElement, ClipAbove and ClipBelow for all containers.

  * Added methods YZ(), YZW(), XZ(), XW(), ZW() etc. to vectors.

  * Added method FastCopyOf which relies on memcpy to perform a
    shallow copy of all the container's elements whenever it is
    possible (compact and compatible containers).

  * vctDynamicMatrix copy construtor also copies the storage order.

  * vctFixedSizeMatrix bug fix in IsCompact.

  * Added methods height and width to ease the use of dynamic matrices
    as pixmaps.


- cisstNumerical:

  * Updated all function calls to cisstNetlib to reflect new naming
    convention (name mangling) of recent g95 versions.  The g95 change
    is heading toward a better conformance with other Fortran
    compilers.  This requires to download a new version of cisstNetlib
    made available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X (i386 and PPC).

  * Added nmrPInverseEconomy and nmrSVDEconomy.

  * Fixed bug #244 re. nmrPInverse.


- cisstInteractive:

  * Fixed thread safety issue related to Python interpreter.  Fix now
    requires Python 2.3 or greater.

  * Fixed to work with wxPython 2.6.2.1 (and presumably newer versions)
    by using callback functions instead of events for shell commands.

  * Command history now automatically scrolls to most recent entry.


- New deprecated classes and functions:

  - None