ACE/TAO/CIAO/DAnCE x.0.8 released

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 under the heading "Latest Micro Release Kit."

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 MPC

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