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Changes in this release in respect to RELEASE-980731 are as follows :

  1. Addition of AQL as the new query language

    working version of AQL is present, complete and we believe correct according to the documentation, except that weekdiff() is not implemented, and ->n where n is a number might not work completely correctly. The only interface currently is through the AQL command in tace/aceclient, or the separate program taql (in the release directories).
    The language implementation will nontheless require further optimisation and bugfixing.

  2. giface: display command -D option allows you to set the display type

  3. behaviour of show/list in tace/aceclient changed so now they are consistent with each other and the keyset display in xace. So displayable empty objects give single line entries with show.

  4. behaviour of crashing on 50 errors is now removed from non-graphical versions of acedb, and query in xace is changed slightly.

  5. dump/reread of timestamps now works properly (I believe!)

  6. gff dumping of homols now indicates alignment direction properly

  7. giface seqdna exporting off-by-one fixed and use '/' as delimiter not '_'

  8. removed "feature" that hampered zooming out in FMAP

  9. embl dumping now writes a file .emblLog containing errors/warnings

  10. parse from stdin now allowed from aceclient

  11. fixed a bug that crashed the table_maker filechooser ("unknown filespec error" for some filenames of .def files)

  12. Internal code restructuring : The utility library

    • All programs now compile with -lfree, which provides all basic utility functions, like memory allocation, file handling, growable arrays and hash-dictionaries, free format input/output, heaps, lists and date/time data types.

    • All ACEDB specifics removed from utility code - now truly versatile - needs documenting and a little more cleanup though.

    • changes to the message package (including registering of message handlers, exception catching, rationalisation of error and log messages)

    • sessionWriteAccess() corrupted the freesubs card, which caused a subtle bug in giface.

    • introduction of linking symbols for WinAce compilation on PCs.

 Last Modified Wed Jun 12 17:40:57 2002 fw@sanger.ac.uk