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! Package     : GaudiPartProp
! Responsible : Marco Clemencic
! Purpose     : Gaudi Particle Property Service
! Commit Id   : $Format:%H$
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================================ Gaudi v28r2 =================================


================================ Gaudi v28r1 =================================


================================ Gaudi v28r0 =================================

! 2016-10-27 - Gerhard Raven, Marco Clemencic (commit b111898)

 - modernization of Property

   This is a major rewrite of the system of `Property` classes. Started as  the
   implementation of GAUDI-1214, it continued as a review of
   `IProperty` and `PropertyMgr`, to end up in a complete rewrite
   (and optimization) of `PropertyWithValue`.

   * Fixes GAUDI-1214
    - added missing `declareProperty` signature
    - added `PropertyHolder` (an updated `PropertyMgr`)
    - adapted all properties in Gaudi
   * improved use of `PropertyHolder`
    - use inheritance instead of composition
    - removed ~200 (duplicated) lines of code in GaudiKernel
   * optimization of Property (fixes GAUDI-1229)
    - use templates and automatic code generation to handle efficiently
      both value and reference properties
      - avoid creation of values on the heap (see GAUDI-1229)
      - removed the *owned* boolean flag
      - improved usability of properties (e.g. begin/end wrappers for
        C++11 loops, increment/decrement operators...)
      - deprecated use of C arrays as properties
    - merged features of `PropertyWithVerifier`, `SimpleProperty` and
      `SimplePropertyRef` into `PropertyWithValue`
    - deduplication of name and doc strings via

   [`boost::string_ref`](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/utility/doc/html/string_ref.html)

      and a static storage  (see GAUDI-1229)
   * Fixes GAUDI-1205
   * add deprecation warnings in service accessors of `Algorithm` (@graven)
   * renamed `Property` base class to `Gaudi::Details::PropertyBase` and
   `PropertyWithValue` to `Gaudi::Property`
    - added backward compatibility type aliases (but not compatible with
      forward declarations of `class Property`, which should be replaced
      by `#include "GaudiKernel/PropertyFwd.h"`)
   * added macro `GAUDI_PROPERTY_v2` to allow easy implementation of
    backward compatible changes in derived projects (e.g. when user code
    relied on `DoubleProperty` having a verifier)
   * Fixes GAUDI-1268
    The changes are as backward compatible as much as possible (except if you
   explicitly inherit from `SimpleProperty`, or you forward declared
   `class Property`, which now are typedefs), but must be validated in the
   experiment frameworks.
    See merge request !182

! 2016-10-12 - Marco Clemencic (commit b5e05a1)

 - improved handling of package version in CMake configuration

   use project version if a package version is not provided
    See GAUDI-1215.
    See merge request !175

! 2016-07-25 - Marco Clemencic (commit e3d4b07)

 - remove CMT configuration and related files

   * removed CMT configuration files
   * adapted scripts not to use CMT
    Fixes GAUDI-1216 Fixes GAUDI-979
    See merge request !186

============================= GaudiPartProp v2r3 =============================

! 2016-03-10 - commit 4a18175

 - removed uses of templates implements[1-4], extends[1-4] and
   extend_interfaces[1-4]

   Since merge request !22 they are unnecessary.
    See merge request !133

! 2016-02-11 - commit b0618f7

 - Improve CommonMessaging

   Implementation of GAUDI-1146: Improve CommonMessaging and use it in more
   places.

   See merge request !76

   Conflicts:
   GaudiExamples/tests/qmtest/refs/AlgTools2.ref
   GaudiExamples/tests/qmtest/refs/MultiInput/Read.ref
   GaudiExamples/tests/qmtest/refs/conditional_output/write.ref
   GaudiKernel/GaudiKernel/AlgTool.h
   GaudiKernel/GaudiKernel/Algorithm.h
   GaudiKernel/GaudiKernel/Service.h
   GaudiKernel/src/Lib/AlgTool.cpp
   GaudiKernel/src/Lib/Algorithm.cpp

============================= GaudiPartProp v2r2 =============================

! 2015-10-08 - commit c50c176

 - improvements to documentation and release tools

   See merge request !43


! 2015-09-25 - commit 35dd00c

 - Merge branch 'dev-smartif-use' into 'master'

   Provide (and use) C++11 smart pointer 'look and feel' for SmartIF

   The aim of this branch is to confine, for everything that inherits from
   IInterface, the calls to addRef(), release() and queryInterface() to the
   SmartIF implementation. Exceptions are a few places where interfaces
   (currently) return bare pointers (instead of SmartIF...) and where one thus
   has to addRef() explicitly to avoid returning a dangling pointer. This can be
   avoided by changing the relevant interface to return a SmartIF instead of a
   bare pointer.

   In addition, make SmartIF 'look and feel' like a smart pointer.

   - use explict bool conversion instead of .isValid()
   - add SmartIF::as<IFace>(), to return a SmartIF<IFace> to an alternate
      interface -- which (together with move) encourages the use of auto
   - add ISvcLocator::as<IFace>(), to return a SmartIF<IFace> to the current
   ISvcLocator.
   - add ServiceManager::service<IFace>() which return SmartIF<IFace> which
   encourages
      the use of auto

   And add a few other C++11 modernizations (eg. prefer STL over raw loop)

   Fixes GAUDI-1094

   See merge request !24


! 2015-09-11 - commit c062cbe

 - C++11 modernization changes

   Some trivial - and some not so trivial! - changes which take advantage of
   C++11...

   See merge request !7

============================= GaudiPartProp v2r1 =============================
! 2014-03-18 - Ben Couturier
 - Fixed bug #104127: remove hwaf configuration.

============================= GaudiPartProp v2r0 =============================
! 2013-12-11 - Sebastien Binet
 - Added hwaf configuration files.

! 2013-07-18 - Marco Clemencic
 - Removed use of obsolete AlgFactory.h, SvcFactory.h, ToolFactory.h,
   AudFactory.h and CnvFactory.h.

! 2013-07-17 - Marco Clemencic
 - Removed factories forward declarations.

============================= GaudiPartProp v1r2 =============================
! 2012-11-14 - Marco Clemencic
 - Updated CMakeLists.txt.

============================= GaudiPartProp v1r1 =============================
! 2012-06-08 - Marco Clemencic
 - Added CMake configuration files.

============================= GaudiPartProp v1r0 =============================
! 2011-12-05 - Marco Clemencic
 - Moved ParticlePropertySvc to a dedicated package and wrapped it in the
   namespace Gaudi.