[Remind-Fans] Remind 05.00.02 BETA 1 - proper fix to ONCE

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi, everyone,

I've tagged 05.00.02-BETA-1; you can grab a tarball from here:

https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind/-/archive/05.00.02-BETA-1/remind-05.00.02-BETA-1.tar.gz

The biggest change is a proper implementation of how ONCE works; it no
longer has to rely on the access time of the main reminder script.

Release notes follow.

Regards,

Dianne.

CHANGES TO REMIND

* VERSION 5.0 Patch 2 - 2024-07-??

* IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Revamp how ONCE works.  You can now set a
  special variable $OnceFile to be the path to a timestamp file.  The
  ONCE directive uses this timestamp file to track when it was last
  run rather than the access date of the main reminder script.  This
  is more reliable because it doesn't rely on the atime of a file
  (which might not be maintained accurately) and is not affected if
  you edit your reminder script.

* CHANGE: Taking input from stdin no longer implies the "-o" option; ONCE can
  work if you set $OnceFile

* CHANGE: Any of the -c, -n, -p and -s options implicitly enable the
  -o option.  As before, specifying a repeat factor *N or a date that
  is not today on the command-line also implies -o.

* MINOR NEW FEATURE: Rem2PDF: Add the "--svg" command-line option to produce
  SVG output rather than PDF.

* MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Improve the storage efficiency of short
  string constants in compiled expression trees.

* MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Remove some obsolete macro definitions

* VERSION 5.0 Patch 1 - 2024-06-08
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