Change log for selectlib
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Open SOC-SPRs/SCRs:
*none*
Version 4.68 - 2003-06-26 (GV)
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+ (Region.h) Put a namespace around the code in an
attempt to solve the cause of SOC-SPR-2444.
Version 4.67 - 2003-06-13 (GV)
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+ Add a few include <cassert> to make gcc-3.3 happy.
Version 4.66 - 2003-05-30 (GV)
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+ (test/Makefile) add slatec to USEDLIBS.
Version 4.65 - 2003-05-21 (UL)
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+ added ShapeBasics::toColor()/toString()
+ closed SPR 2441: Test harness failure on Mac OS X
Version 4.64 - 2003-05-16 (UL)
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+ bug fix which caused crash with selection expression referring to
non-existing string columns in a table (e.g. (H5455 == ON) instead
of (H5455 == "ON") in OM_HKPARMINT_0003.CCF
Version 4.63 - 2003-03-19 (UL)
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+ added new inquiry method DataFilter::expression()
Version 4.62 - 2003-02-27 (UL)
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+ fixed minor bug in memory management
+ fixed bug in expansion of attributes in selection expression (only
showed up under MacOSX)
+ added missing caloalutils to USEDLIBS in test/Makefile
+ work-around for gcc-3.1 include file bug under MacOSX (search for
'MacOSX' in src/selcore/NumericFunctors.cc for details)
Version 4.61 - 2002-02-17 (JBa)
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+ (./cxx/*) prefixed with std::
Version 4.60.1 - 2002-11-26 (UL)
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+ minor transparent change in Region.h to support more user-friendly
selection of background regions in ds9
Version 4.60 - 2002-08-26 (UL)
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+ fixed problem with combi-lib building (caused linking failure under
Tru64)
Version 4.59 - 2002-07-31 (UL)
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+ added selectReleaseMemory() to src/service/datafilter.f90
Version 4.58 - 2002-07-29 (UL)
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+ fixed problem with broken rgsregions due to 4.55 change in Region.h
Version 4.57 - 2002-07-22 (JBa)
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+ (src/utils/TriangulatablePolygon.cc) making sure we pick up local
INFINITY definition (GNU stdc++ library defines INFINITY in cmath)
Version 4.56 - 2002-07-19 (UL)
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+ various trivial C++ standard compliance fixes (code is gcc-3.1-clean now)
Version 4.55 - 2002-07-10 (UL)
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+ transparent modifications to GeoRegion class
+ implemented funtools/CIAO compliant region combination policy
(Venn diagram can now be generated with within one operation)
+ added new test harness
Version 4.54 - 2002-07-09 (UL)
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+ added f90 I/F to ExprColumnGenerator class (construction of table
column driven by arithmetic expressions)
Version 4.53 - 2002-06-28 (UL)
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+ changed all occurences of 'strstream' to standard-conformant
'stringstream'
Version 4.52 - 2002-06-10 (UL)
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+ minor addition to OGIPgti class
Version 4.51 - 2002-06-03 (UL)
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+ added support for time and angle parameters
Version 4.50 - 2002-05-29 (UL)
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+ Trigonometric functions and their inverse now use radians
Version 4.49 - 2002-05-29 (UL)
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+ Allow single-quoted text literals (to faciliate string parameter
validation in param>=2.0)
+ more robust identification of string identifier in textual contexts
Version 4.48 - 2002-05-27 (UL)
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+ added support for vector algebra
Version 4.47 - 2002-04-22 (UL)
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+ treat identifiers in textual contexts properly
Version 4.46.5 - 2002-04-08 (UL)
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+ allow timing attributes in GTI merging to be of mixed types real/int or
int/real for equality check
Version 4.46.4 - 2002-03-18 (UL)
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+ fixed minor problem related to utils-1.84 update
Version 4.46.3 - 2002-01-31 (UL)
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+ fixed problem inadvertently introduced in 4.46.1: timing related
keywords in GTI tables were not treated as optional
Version 4.46.2 - 2002-01-30 (UL)
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+ closed SPR 2264: yacc problem [was bug in selcore/past_ly]
Version 4.46.1 - 2002-01-29 (UL)
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+ added EllipticalAnnulus::toSelectExpression() (override base class
method)
+ implemented SCR 58: propagate timing related keywords in GTI merging
(closes SPR 2204)
+ relaxed too stringest base test with sector-filter (failed under Linux)
Version 4.46 - 2001-12-07 (UL)
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+ redelivery of 4.45 for start of 5.3 RT
Version 4.45 - 2001-09-26 (UL)
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+ implemented SCR 78: Addition of keyword to tabgtigen output
Version 4.44.3 - 2001-09-25 (UL)
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+ couple of trivial changes in utils/TrinagulatablePolygon.cc to make
optimizer happy
Version 4.44.2 - 2001-09-12 (UL)
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+ fixed problem in documentation introduced with 4.42
+ fixed problem in method of new TrinagulatablePolygon that caused
problem reported in SPR 2153 on the CAL
(see src/utils/TriangulatablePolygon.cc for details)
Version 4.44.1 - 2001-08-17 (UL)
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+ corrected modification dates of files in src/selcore (.l/.y are
newer than .cc counterparts in src/selcore in 4.44)
Version 4.44 - 2001-08-15 (UL)
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+ added new region filter 'polygon2' with a defined positive result for
test points exactly on a polygon segment
+ test harness extended to cover new polygon2 filter
+ fixed another compilation problem under Tru64
Version 4.43 - 2001-08-13 (UL)
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+ fixed compilation problem in TriangulatablePolygon.cc under Tru64
Version 4.42.1 - 2001-08-11 (UL)
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+ moved SelecteError from selcore to utils
Version 4.42 - 2001-08-10 (UL)
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+ case of SHAPE value in input CXC region tables is now indifferent
(used to require names in uppercase)
+ implemented fast O(log N) polygon filter; typical speed up for
number of points ~200 is factor 5-10
+ inclusion status of point on polygon boundaries remains uncertain;
now explained in doc; see also rejected SPR 2010
+ consistent use of namespace std
Version 4.41 - 2001-07-05 (UL)
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+ renamed local utility class WCS to SelectWCS to resolve name conflict
with caloalutils
Version 4.40.2 - 2001-05-15 (UL)
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+ fixed minor problem with timestamps of lex/yacc files
Version 4.40.1 - 2001-05-14 (UL)
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+ fixed bug in real-number pattern: caused 'E123' to be seen as valid
floating point constant
Version 4.40 - 2001-04-02 (UL)
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+ changed obsolete old-style include statements
Version 4.39.9 - 2001-07-02 (UL)
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+ fixed compilation problem in one of the tests
Version 4.39.8 - 2001-05-02 (UL)
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+ added Shape::contains(): point-in-shape test
Version 4.39.7 - 2000-11-13 (UL)
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+ support for 'annulus' region (needed to in fix of SPR 1832)
Version 4.39.6 - 2000-11-11 (UL)
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+ a couple of trivial changes to eliminate warnings from optimizer
Version 4.39.5 - 2000-10-30 (UL)
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+ ExprColumnConstructor did not understand attribute references in
expression
Version 4.39.4 - 2000-10-27 (UL)
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+ added config/selectlib.info
Version 4.39.3 - 2000-10-25 (UL)
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+ bug fix: now release column data objects in ExprColumnGenerator
Version 4.39.2 - 2000-10-25 (UL)
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+ better warning message when trying to filter with empty GTI table
+ fixed compilation problem introduced with 4.39.1
Version 4.39.1 - 2000-10-24 (UL)
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+ small change in region->expression conversion (selectutils) that allows
to fix SPR 1708: Seg fault when importing an invalid 1-d region fromgrace
Version 4.39 - 2000-09-27 (UL)
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+ minor updated to documentation (usage of \sascite)
+ small speed improvement in polygon filter
Version 4.38 - 2000-09-20 (UL)
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+ constants in bases 2/8/16 have now to be prefixed by lowercase
letters 'b'/'o'/'h' in order to be recognized
+ bug fix related to usage of table attributes in selection expression
Version 4.37 - 2000-09-04 (UL)
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+ fixed typo in operator declarations in Gti.h
Version 4.36 - 2000-07-26 (UL)
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+ fixed lowmem problem in one of the tests
+ syntax change: octal numbers start now with 'o' instead of '0';
hex numbers can start with either '0x' or 'h'
Version 4.35.3 - 2000-07-07 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1663: syntax errors
(was due to bug in expression parser which was left in an undefined
state after an error condition)
Version 4.35.2 - 2000-07-06 (UL)
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+ bug fix in mask filter (was introduced in 4.35)
Version 4.35.1 - 2000-07-05 (UL)
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+ minor modification in one of the test harnesses
Version 4.35 - 2000-07-04
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+ identical to 4.34.6 - minor version number bumped for making cal
dependent on new selectlib
Version 4.34.6 - 2000-07-03 (UL)
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+ fixed SCR 962: string columns
+ fixed SCR 958: support for nulls
+ documentation updated (new sections about string selection capabilities +
null support + typos corrected)
+ now depends on utils-1.67 (fixed NAN mask for single precision reals)
Version 4.34.5 - 2000-06-23 (UL)
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+ terminal vertex in Polygons is now explictely removed/added when
reading/writing ASC region files; internally all polygons are treated
as open
Version 4.34.4 - 2000-06-22 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1600: missing ASCRegion POLYGON terminator
Version 4.34.3 - 2000-06-19 (UL)
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+ more reliable solution for SPR 1536: give .l/.y modication time
of 01010000 to avoid unnecessary generation of associated .cc
+ bug fix in writing of OGIP GTI tables: caused overwriting of existing
tables to fail if the new table is smaller tan the old one
(fixes SPR 1578: tabgtigen creates wrong GTIs)
Version 4.34.2 - 2000-06-16 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1404: parser requires decimal pt when specifying floating pt
numbers
+ fixed SPR 1556: DOC::broken links
Version 4.34.1 - 2000-05-31 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1365: selectlib uses yacc
(src/selectcore/SelectParser.cc must have a time stamp later than
SelectParser.y to suppress invocation of bison; same is true
for SelectLexer.{cc|l})
Version 4.34 - 2000-05-29 (UL)
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+ bug fixed in parser which caused
mask(m.ds, xOff, yOff, xCol, yCol)
and
(xCol, yCol) in mask(m.ds, xOff, yOff)
to behave differently
Version 4.33 - 2000-05-25 (UL)
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+ GTI data sets are now OGIP compliant
(this fixes SPR 1346 : gtimerge is not functional with evselect)
+ OutOGIPgtiTable can now also be constructed from existing table
+ bug fix in GTI table or-ing
Version 4.32 - 2000-05-22 (UL)
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+ bug fix in OGIPgti classes which caused crash in lowmem mode
Version 4.31 - 2000-05-19 (UL)
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+ brought in line with dal-1.119 (added missing CREATOR/DATE attributes
to data sets in test directory)
Version 4.30 - 2000-05-09 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1246: Wrong usage of MACROs in LaTeX documentation
+ minor fix in Region::toSelectExpression() (selectutils)
Version 4.29 - 2000-02-23 (UL)
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+ point filter rounds coordinates to nearest integer prior to comparison
Version 4.28 - 2000-02-21 (UL)
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+ changed internal convention for row flagging: selected rows are now
marked by _setting_ the selection bit (was: clearing the bit, despite
the comments in src/selectservice/DataFilter.cc which is _now_ correct)
Version 4.27 - 2000-02-17 (UL)
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+ transparent internal changes in selectcore which make it possible
to have several instances of Evaluator object; this is needed as
of cal-3.49
Version 4.26 - 2000-02-03 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1011: selectlib and low memory mode
+ fixed SPR 1101: Behaviour with empty GTI tables
+ fixed SPR 1114: selectlib: errortest gives SEGV in isValidExpression
Version 4.25 - 2000-01-23 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1011 : selectlib and low memory mode
(failed because attempted to modify read-only objects)
Version 4.24 - 2000-01-04 (UL) - the Millenium selectlib!
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+ fixed SPR 1060: Fails on LInux (gcc-2.95.1)
Version 4.23 - 1999-12-17 (UL)
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+ modification to GTI filter: issue a warning message if a GTI with
start>stop is seen
+ renamed 'Region' in selectutils to 'GeoRegion' to resolve name clash
with type in Qt header file
Version 4.22.1 - 1999-12-16 (UL)
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+ removed dependency on imgdisplay/dsplot
Version 4.22 - 1999-12-15 (UL)
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+ closed several minor memory leaks
+ new functionality in selectutils to deal with Region objects
Version 4.21 - 1999-11-17 (UL)
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+ internal changes (wrapped lexer/parser into separate namespace
to resolve name clash conflict with lexer/parser in dsslib)
Version 4.20.2 - 1999-11-03 (UL)
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+ added support for new unsigned types available in dal>=1.80
Version 4.20.1 - 1999-10-29 (UL)
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+ brought test harness 'selectutiltest' in line with 4.20
Version 4.20 - 1999-10-27 (UL)
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+ made it dependent on dsplot-1.0
Version 4.19 - 1999-10-25 (UL)
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+ src/selectutils/ExprTranslator: added translation from 2D-Dsplot
regions to selectlib expression and other miscellaneous fixes
Version 4.18 - 1999-10-21 (UL)
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+ bug fix in new GtiList::operator&=
Version 4.17 - 1999-10-20 (UL)
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+ src/selectutils/Gti.h: added GtiList::operator|=/operator&=
Version 4.16 - 1999-10-12 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 874: Evaluator should not raise a 'fatal' error on an invalid
expression
+ make use of INTERFACE/combilib mechanism
+ error handling overhauled (has now optional exception handling)
+ added Evaluator::isValidExpression()
Version 4.15 - 1999-10-08 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 879 : ROW is not recognized any more ?
Version 4.14 - 1999-09-21 (UL)
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+ conversion of ds9/tng region specification takes in addition to
binning factors also image shifts into account
Version 4.13 - 1999-09-21 (UL)
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+ bug fix in test harness (selectutilstest)
Version 4.12 - 1999-09-20 (UL)
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+ classes in src/selectutis/ExprTranslator.h can now convert
imgdisplay/dsplot region specifications into selectlib expression;
the former takes x/y binning factors into account
Version 4.11 - 1999-09-13 (UL)
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+ internal change in src/selectservice after closure of DAL
SPR 589 : incorrect treatment of FITS B-type
+ added DISTRIBUTION file
Version 4.10 - 1999-08-18 (UL)
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+ bug fix in modf function (was not accepting single argument)
Version 4.9 - 1999-08-17 (UL)
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+ added one test to test/selectutiltest
Version 4.8 - 1999-08-16 (UL)
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+ added more arithmetic functions: sinh, cosh, tanh, pow, ceil, floor,
int, fmod, modf
Version 4.7 - 1999-08-05 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 723 : ExprColumnGenerator does not catch invalid column name
usage of non-existent column names in expression passed to
ExprColumnGenerator constructor leads now to a proper error message
Version 4.6 - 1999-06-28 (UL)
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+ two versions of region filter are now supported
+ region(<regionfile>)
+ region(<regionfile>, Xcolumn, Ycolumn)
in the former case, the name of the X/Y column are taken from the
contents of the MFORM attribute in the specified region file
Version 4.5 - 1999-06-03 (UL)
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+ bug fix in ServiceUtils::attributeFreeExression (reference to
non-existing attributes did not lead to an error)
Version 4.4 - 1999-05-12 (UL)
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+ added new methods to ServiceUtils class to expand symbolic references
to table attributes by their values in selection expressions
Version 4.3 - 1999-05-11 (UL)
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+ brought in line with error-1.18
Version 4.2 - 1999-05-07 (UL)
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+ src/selectutils/SetTabCol.h: added access mode to constructor
Version 4.1 - 1999-04-27 (UL)
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+ closed SPR 551: Filename.[h|cc]
+ internal Changes in src/selectservice (ColumnGenerator is now
abstract base class)
+ minor bug fix in src/selectutils/SetTabCol.cc
Version 4.0 - 1999-04-16 (UL)
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+ name of classes 'Filter' and 'Node' changed to 'DataFilter' and 'OpNode'
to resolve name clash with symbols in the Cal; this is likely
to break all selectlib clients, hence, the major version number
increment
Version 3.25 - 1999-04-15 (UL)
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+ new utility classes in selectutils for disentangeling of specifiers
in the form set:block:column
+ updates to test harnesses enforced by error-1.16
+ all dataset-based filters accept the form set:block as valid
block specifiers
Version 3.24 - 1999-03-05 (UL)
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+ more more changes to make it work with lowmem Dal
Version 3.23 - 1999-03-03 (UL)
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+ several changes to make it work with the lowmem Dal; core remains
unchanged
Version 3.22 - 1999-02-17 (UL)
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+ bug fix in new ExtrTranslator class: generated expression was invalid ;)
Version 3.21 - 1999-02-17 (UL)
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+ src/selectutils: added utility class which provides static
methods to transform region specifications from imgdisplay/dsplot
into selectlib expressions; selectlib now dependent on these
two packages
Version 3.20 - 1999-01-29 (UL)
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+ minor fixes to make compilation under egcs 1.1.1 go smoothly
Version 3.19 - 1999-01-27 (UL)
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+ minor fixes to make compilation under gcc 2.8.1 go smoothly
Version 3.18 - 1999-01-20 (UL)
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+ bug fix in MaskFilter::passFilter (responsible for SSC-SPR 872:
Y-flipping of mask images)
Version 3.17 - 1999-01-19 (UL)
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+ bug fix in src/selectcore/SelFileFunc.cc@MaskFilter::MaskFilter
(mask images in primary arrays) which gave rise to SSC-SPR 872
Version 3.16 - 1998-11-16 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 345: Lots of hardcoded rules ala Make.include
additonal rules nedded in src/selectcore (.l->.cc, .y->.cc) have
been moved to Make.include
Version 3.15 - 1998-11-13 (UL)
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+ new build procedure in-line with what is done in the Dal: separate
libaries are build in each src-subdir which get combined in a
new directory 'interface'; this also contains now all needed symbolic
links to *.h/*.f90/*.mod
Version 3.14 - 1998-11-12 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 274: Need symbolic link
Version 3.13 - 1998-11-02 (UL)
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+ in ColumnGenerator: handle case that newly to be generated column
exists already; we do now:
o generate the new column with temporary name
o delete original column
o rename the new column
Version 3.12 - 1998-10-15 (UL)
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+ fixed non-working example of table filtering expression in documentation
+ fixed bug in Polygon filter (caused crash on Dec Alpha)
+ changed implementation of bit complement operator to make it
work on 64 bit architectures (Dec Alpha)
+ make package dependent on sas-1.35 in which `configure' now defines the
'proper' order of math libraries when using NAGace (the pow()
function in the NAGace libray -lma claims '2**3 == 7.999999' which
breaks a selectlib test)
Version 3.11 - 1998-10-07 (UL)
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+ WCS support in mask filter (documentation updated accordingly)
+ explicit operator<< in Filename class
Version 3.10 - 1998-10-05 (MB)
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+ upgraded F90 message calls in test harness
Version 3.9 - 1998-10-02 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 395 : Bug: Evaluator uses long for bit operations (not
portable 64<->32)
+ fixed SPR 428 : Selectlib should depend on cal
Version 3.8 - 1998-09-10 (MB)
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+ fixed concurrecny problem in Makefiles that caused missing .o's in
library
Version 3.7 - 1998-08-27 (UL)
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+ bug fix in implementation of Filter class (caused crash in FLAG
column clearing when filtered table was empty - very rare though)
Version 3.6 - 1998-07-31 (UL)
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+ bug fix in src/selectutils/Region.h affecting the RotRhombus filter
Version 3.5 - 1998-07-29 (UL)
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+ maximum number of vertices in a polygon is no longer limited (was 30)
Version 3.4 - 1998-07-28 (UL)
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+ bug fixes in src/selectservice/Filter.cc, src/selectcore/SelOpFuncs.cc
Version 3.3 - 1998-07-20 (UL)
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+ depends now on utils 1.8
+ works with sas-1.16 (required changes to Makefiles in src/selectservice,
src/selectutils)
Version 3.2 - 1998-07-07 (UL)
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+ fixed portability problem in src/selectutils/Region.cc (SOC-SPR 356)
+ got rid of doc/selectlib.tex - this is now generated on the
fly by 'make ps/html' - this fixes SOC-SPR 368
Version 3.1 - 1998-07-06 (UL)
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+ get rid of several usepackage directives in doc/selectlib.tex
Version 3.0 - 1998-06-26 (UL)
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+ overhauled code + documentation (now in-line with SAS doc. standard)
+ new user features:
o 'selected' function (convenient for step-wise filtering)
o 'in' operator (in preparation of DSS support)
o references to extensions can now be made by name
+ fixed SOC-SPRs 341, 342, 344 (all about documentation), and
343 (do not modify CXXFLAGS)
Version 2.3 - 1998-05-28 (UL)
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+ added ArrayEvaluator class in to select services + corresponding
f90 wrapper + updated test harness
Version 2.2 - 1998-05-27 (UL)
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+ fixed SOC-SPR 221
+ fixed minor problem in Makefile
Version 2.1 - 1998-05-26 (UL)
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+ fixed SOC-SPRs 219, 220, 222
Version 2.0 - 1998-05-19 (UL)
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+ general code overhaul
+ library reorganization: the formerly
three separate libraries filter/selectutils/selecto have been merged
into one:
libfilter.a+libutils.a+libselector.a -> libselector.a
tasks need from now on only link to the latter, i.e, in the Makefile
USEDLIBS = selector
+ speed has been improved by another factor 4
+ new functionality to construct table columns from arithmetic expressions
involving operators/functions and other column names (see
src/selectservices/ColumnGenerator.h)
+ mask images need no longer be of type int16 but can be in int8 or int32
as well
Version 1.1 - 1998-04-29 (UL)
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+ initial version for SAS v1 integration