1.1 --- a/NEWS Sun Nov 30 12:58:20 2008 +0100
1.2 +++ b/NEWS Sun Nov 30 14:03:45 2008 +0100
1.3 @@ -15,17 +15,18 @@
1.4 - The former "isabelle" alias for "isabelle-process" has been
1.5 removed (should rarely occur to regular users).
1.6
1.7 - - The "Isabelle" alias for "isabelle-interface" has been removed.
1.8 + - The former "isabelle-interface" and its alias "Isabelle" have been
1.9 + removed (interfaces are now regular Isabelle tools).
1.10
1.11 Within scripts and make files, the Isabelle environment variables
1.12 ISABELLE_TOOL and ISABELLE_PROCESS replace old ISATOOL and ISABELLE,
1.13 respectively. (The latter are still available as legacy feature.)
1.14
1.15 -Also note that user interfaces are now better wrapped as regular
1.16 -Isabelle tools instead of using the special isabelle-interface wrapper
1.17 -(which can be confusing if the interface is uninstalled or changed
1.18 -otherwise). See "isabelle tty" and "isabelle emacs" for contemporary
1.19 -examples.
1.20 +The old isabelle-interface wrapper could react in confusing ways if
1.21 +the interface was uninstalled or changed otherwise. Individual
1.22 +interface tool configuration is now more explicit, see also the
1.23 +Isabelle system manual. In particular, Proof General is now available
1.24 +via "isabelle emacs".
1.25
1.26 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt derivative scripts. Users may need to
1.27 purge installed copies of Isabelle executables and re-run "isabelle