[ANN] TAO 2.0.8 available

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi all,

Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and
users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.0.8, TAO
2.0.8, CIAO 1.0.8, and DAnCE 1.0.8, which is available from the usual
download location at:

http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/

under the heading "Latest Micro Release Kit."

The doxygen documentation for this release is also available. In
addition to the packages combined of sources and generate makefiles,
this release provides source-only packages for developers who use MPC to
generate their own makefiles.

We encourage you to download the new release, use it with your
applications, and let us know if you encounter any problems. Please use the:

$ACE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$MPC_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$CIAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$DANCE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM

so that we have the proper version/platform/compiler/options you're
using to report problems. We also request that you take a look at:

$TAO_ROOT/docs/releasenotes/

for the status of various ongoing projects at the DOC group of
Vanderbilt to move ACE+TAO+CIAO+DAnCE forward. Overviews of our recent
progress and upcoming plans are available at:

$ACE_ROOT/NEWS
$TAO_ROOT/NEWS
$CIAO_ROOT/NEWS
$DANCE_ROOT/NEWS

The overall success rates for the test results gathered from all our daily
builds is 97% for the ACE tests and 97% for the TAO, CIAO, and DAnCE tests.

Please see:

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/scoreboard/

for a summary of these tests. As always, we appreciate your help in
resolving any remaining problems. Please see:

ACE_ROOT/docs/ACE-bug-process.html

for an overview of our bug fixing policies. Moreover, please see:

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/support.html

for information commercial support services available from various
companies.

The following is a list of key changes since the last major release.
Please refer to the corresponding ChangeLog files, NEWS files, or
Bugzilla entries for more details on the problem and the nature of fixes
applied.

==============
Changes to ACE
==============

. Added support for MPC's new feature that creates dependency files
for IDL files when generating '-type gnuace' projects. Turned off by
default, it can be enabled in a features file or on the command line
with '-features ace_idl_dependencies=1'.

==============
Changes to TAO
==============

. Added support for MPC's new feature that creates dependency files for
IDL files when generating '-type gnuace' projects. Turned off by
default, it can be enabled in a features file or on the command line
with '-features ace_idl_dependencies=1'.

. Fixed IDL compiler bug where a generated component servant method that
is called by the middleware to initialize a component's attributes
was not including attributes of supported interfaces.

===============
Changes to CIAO
===============

. None

================
Changes to DAnCE
================

. None

==============
Changes to MPC
==============

. Added -workers <n> which specifies number of child processes to use to
generate project

=====================
Bugzilla Issues Fixed
=====================

0 MPC bugzilla issue fixed:

2 ACE bugzilla issues fixed:
3996 Move ADBC to its own repository
3999 Build ACE+TAO for ARM processor using cross compilation toolchain

0 TAO bugzilla issues fixed:

0 CIAO bugzilla issues fixed:

0 DAnCE bugzilla issues fixed:
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