[m-rev.] diff: update NEWS file for 0.10.1

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Mar 14 02:53:13 AEDT 2001


Estimated hours taken: 1.5
Branches: main, release
	(The very first hunk of the diff applies only to the main branch,
	not to the release branch.)

NEWS:
	Add new section for 0.10.1.
	Mention new packages in extras that were added in 0.10 and 0.10.1.

Workspace: /mnt/earth/home/earth/fjh/ws-earth/mercury
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.204
diff -u -d -r1.204 NEWS
--- NEWS	2001/02/24 11:59:51	1.204
+++ NEWS	2001/03/13 15:46:15
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-NEWS since Mercury release 0.10
--------------------------------
-Note that Mercury 0.10 has not actually been officially announced;
+NEWS since Mercury release 0.10.1
+---------------------------------
+Note that Mercury 0.10.1 has not actually been officially announced;
 this section documents changes in the development version of
 Mercury since we established a feature freeze for Mercury 0.10
 and split development of that version off onto a separate branch
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@
 * The exception module has a new predicate `try_store', which is
   like `try_io', but which works with stores rather than io__states.
 
+
+NEWS for Mercury release 0.10.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+This is mainly a bug-fix release.
+
+There are however some new packages in the mercury-extras distribution:
+* lex: a lexical analyzer library for Mercury.
+* curs: a simplified binding to the ncurses/panel libraries for terminal I/O.
+
+
 NEWS for Mercury release 0.10:
 ------------------------------
 
@@ -46,6 +57,12 @@
 * There's a version of the new back-end which compiles directly
   to assembler, using the GCC back-end.
 * Various improvements to `mtags'.
+
+Additional packages in the mercury-extras distribution:
+* Moose: a parser generator for Mercury.
+* concurrency: support for multi-threading/concurrency.
+* stream: an implementation of generic I/O streams, using type classes.
+* xml: a library for parsing XML.
 
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