The individual programs have been carefully designed to fit the UNIX tool philosophy of orthogonal tools that can be easily combined via pipes or command scripts. Most important about the new release is the inclusion of a rather extensive tutorial. Please forgive us that we could only supply a PostScript version of it. Even more important, although less visible, is the rewrite of most important parts of the shape program. The net result is a much more powerful, reliable, and understandable build process.
Shape is now able to perform almost all jobs it was always supposed to do, but failed to.
Beside numerous bug fixes, there are only few spectacular changes to the version control system. It works much more reliably when called recursively. The first prototype of ShapeTools' release management system has been very much refined. The good news is that the RMS has been documented and comes with a complete set of man-pages. These were the highlights.