[stella] DASM 2.20.11 Released!

[Peter H. Fröhlich]

Hi all,

I'd like to announce a new release of DASM, DASM 2.20.11. It's been  
quite a while since the last release, 2.20.10 in 2004, which  
apparently didn't catch on as well as 2.20.07 because of a few  
warnings about negative literals in assembler source code. Those are  
fixed, as are a number of other things. We've added a new option to  
choose the format of error messages as well. Overall, we are hoping  
to restart active DASM development and invite feedback on *all*  
aspects of the release. Here are the relevant links:

   http://dasm-dillon.sourceforge.net/             (small homepage,  
not much there yet)
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/dasm-dillon/   (sourceforge.net  
project page)

There are also two public mailing lists if you're interested in DASM  
announcements or would like to contribute to the discussion of  
features and bugs and so on. You can sign up for those from the  
sf.net project page. Below are (excerpts of) the current NEWS file so  
you can see what has been done for this release.

Finally, if you are in a position to build and test DASM 2.20.11 on  
platforms we have not yet covered (for example BeOS, Amiga, OS X for  
Intel, etc.), we'd love to hear from you!

Special thanks go to Andrew Davie and Thomas Mathys who have been  
helping me *every* *single* *day* since I took over as maintainer!

Cheers,
Peter


> $Id: NEWS 115 2008-04-08 02:55:57Z phf $
>
> This file records only user-visible changes to DASM, the ChangeLog
> file records all internal changes as well (almost all anyway).
>
> =============
> The DASM News
> =============
>
> 2.20.11 -- 07 April 2008
>
>     * Peter H. Froehlich <phf at acm dot org> took over as maintainer
>       from Andrew Davie, but both Andrew and Thomas Mathys still help.
>
>     * DASM moved to sourceforge.net, the new website for DASM is now
>       available at <http://dasm-dillon.sourceforge.net/>.
>
>     * Fixed (the obvious version of) the long-standing "-1 bug" that
>       made DASM reject sources with negative integer literals; there
>       may still be signed/unsigned problems in other areas; there is
>       certainly still a range checking error.
>
>     * Fixed the usage message to reflect that symbol table sorting is
>       controlled by -T and not by -t as the message claimed; also the
>       format of the usage message is now more GNU-like.
>
>     * The range of values for -T is now checked, you have to stick to
>       0 or 1, arbitrary numbers will not work anymore.
>
>     * Removed spurious output when running DASM. In general command
>       line tools should only make output when there's something to
>       report (a central Unix tenent). Sorry if you miss the messages,
>       just look at the usage information instead. :-)
>
>     * Added new -E# option to select format of error messages; -E0 is
>       the default MS style, -E1 is "classic" style from Matthew  
> Dillon,
>       -E2 is GNU style from their coding standards.