[lttng-dev] [RELEASE] Babeltrace 0.8

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

The Babeltrace project provides trace read and write libraries, as well
as a trace converter. Plugins can be created for any trace format to
allow its conversion to/from another trace format.

The main format expected to be converted to/from is the Common Trace
Format (CTF). The default input format of the "babeltrace" command is
CTF, and its default output format is a human-readable text log. The
"babeltrace-log" command converts from a text log to a CTF trace.

Changelog:

2011-12-12 Babeltrace 0.8
        * Add loglevel support
        * Update libpopt dependency to >= 1.13
        * Document dependency on libpopt >= 1.8
        * Describe libtool version dependency
        * AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is deprecated in favor of LT_INIT
        * Use realpath for path
        * Helper function to extract string from fields
        * Use realpath on trace collection path
        * allow printing domains when no procname are present, handle
          various / patterns
        * Add trace:domain,trace:procname,trace:pid support
        * Add "-n trace" option to print trace name
        * Do not install ctf-parser-test
        * Make ctf open errors more verbose
        * configure.ac: add check for popt library
        * Show field names by default, enhance --names option
        * Move opt_field_names/babeltrace_verbose/babeltrace_debug into lib
        * Add mmap trace reading
        * Pass stream pointer with callback caller data

Project website: http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace
Download link: http://www.efficios.com/files/babeltrace/
CTF specification: http://www.efficios.com/ctf

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com