* NEWS: Convert German NEWS file to Markdown
* NEWS: Fix Markdown conversion errors in NEUES.md
* BUILD: Add the German NEWS file to the build system
* NEWS: Fix formatting in NEUES.md
There was already a configure option to specify a output format other
than plain text, but this had to be specified explicitely when
executing configure. Now the ports can define a default other than
plain text.
On macOS now by default pandoc generate html output. It could
in theory also generate rtf, but those are not properly displayed
by TextEdit, and in addition TextEdit cannot handle link internal
to the document (such as for the TOC). But if we are fine with
no link for the TOC, we could pipe the pandoc html output with
textutil to generate the RTF documents.
Also this change allows to have an extension for the pandoc output
files. By default this is empty for plain text (as before) and
the same as the format otherwise (for example .rtf or .html).
This should improve linker time as well as reduce the size of the
built binaries (though this does not affect runtime memory usage
since the debug segments are not loaded into memory except by a
debugger) whilst still giving debug information.
Both the data used to generate the archive and the archive itself
were moved to dists/ instead of being in backends/.
The script was also improved to optionally take a path as a command
line argument to indicate where the wwwroot data are instead of
assuming they are in the working directory.
Finally a 'wwwroot' make target was also added to invoke the python script and generate the archive.
with the expected path to
Each engine now only has to provide a single configure.engine file
adding the engine into the configure script, which then produces the
required other files automatically.
This is the third and final commit enabling fully pluggable engines.
Now providing an engine folder contains a configure.engine, engine.mk
and engine-plugin.h file, it will be picked up automatically by the
configure script.
This is the second part of allowing engines to be added dynamically.
Each folder in engines/ which must contain a file named "engine.mk"
containing the make definitions for that engine.
This occurs because previously when the current version was equal
to a tag i.e. v1.7.0, the output of git --describe was shortened.
This ensures that the output is of the form v1.7.0-0-gXXXXX even
when the revision is equal to the tag.
Some project files (iPhone) and backend files (Symbian) still reference m4.dat,
but I know not enough on how to remove that without breaking something.
