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   support for spaces in filenames.
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   Automatic feature loading (from CONFIG) has been added, this allows qmake to be
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   written using qmake language.
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   The dependency generation system has been redesigned to be faster (as over time
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   it had gotten slower and slower as features crept in). This new system is used
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   for dependency calcuation and moc detection.
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   qmake has been changed to allow features to be introduced without changes to
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   C++ sources (ie project files).
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   DEPENDS supported to allow hard coded dependencies (when qmake's depend are inadaquate)
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   $$sprintf() added to allow easy expansion of complex strings (using %1..%n)
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   for() iteration has been introduced to do simple looping in a qmake script. 
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   CONFIG() test function added.
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   $$basename() and $$dirname() added for file manipulation.
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   warning() can be used in place of message() now.
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   improved support for subdirs with .pro's listed
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   support for QT added to add functionality from Qt
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   support for precompiled headers added
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   support for reading and writing libtool (.la) files
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   support for reading pkgconfig (.pkg) files
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   PWD added as an automatic variable to mean the directory
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   the file being parsed is in (this change required that the
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   directory be set to the file being parsed as well, function
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   tests that query relative paths will need to be relative the
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   file being parsed).
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   persistant data cache introduced
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  caching of more information (speed ups)
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  $$list() added to be used as a lambda function in qmake
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  $$files() added to allow regular expression matching
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  $$fromfile() added to grab one single variable value from a parsed file
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  $$prompt() added to allow querying for user input from qmake
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  include() modified to support specifying which variables to import
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  equals() test added to test for equality
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  MSVC.net generator added [partial solution files in vcsubdirs]
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  subdirs supports multiple project files in a single directory.
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  New function $$system() to extract the value of a shell call.
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  Dependency / Mocable caching. qmake can cache these expensive operations with qmake_cache
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  CONFIG.
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  The parser has been improved to cover more error cases, as well as more forgiving 
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  qmake now includes a special else scope to invert the previous test
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  Ability to add user defined targets to UnixMakefiles.
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 New system for library linking. This system allows a user several different features:
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 1) libtool like library dependencies to static libraries build with qmake
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 2) library dependencies, when on .pro depends on another library - it will
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    automatically build that other library (unix makefiles only)
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 3) automatic detection of configurations for Qt, if CONFIG qt is specified
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    it will find the settings for the most recent Qt itself.
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 Project Builder for Mac OS X is now a supported backend for qmake.
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 qmake can now do recursive searches in project-file mode (-r option).
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 First release, shipped with Qt 3.0.
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 qmake ships with support for Unix make, MSVC (both dsp and nmake), Borland make.