[Rock-dev] Testing needed. Autoproj 1.9.0.rc3 and autobuild 1.7.0.rc3

[Sylvain Joyeux]

As usual, testing procedure follows the changelog

Changelog for Users
-------------------
* much improved progress output for heavily parallel builds
* autoproj update and aup properly update the configuration if given
   the autoproj/ folder. I.e.,
      autoproj update autoproj/
   is equivalent to autoproj update-config
* experimental support for Windows
* experimental support for MacOSX. The osdep system is using MacPorts
* autoproj now validates that you are using always the same ruby
   version. It avoids potential issues in cases where both ruby 1.9 and
   1.8 are used on the same system
* fix some issue with auto-adding packages. Autoproj would always
   auto-add package X if e.g. amake is used, which works fine in most
   but not all cases.
* host of fixes related to ignore_packages. In general, this should
   really work well now
* fix Autoproj.set_initial_env. The details of this forgotten feature
   is going to be in a blog post.

Changelog for package set developers
------------------------------------
* the osdep: keyword can be used to trigger recursive resolution. I.e.,
   one can do the following to avoid repeating a complete osdep
   definition:

     nokogiri:
	gem: nokogiri
         osdep: libxslt-dev
     libxslt-dev:
	ubuntu: libxslt-dev


Testing Instructions
--------------------------
In an already existing autoproj installation, source the env.sh and 
simply run

   gem install --prerelease autoproj autobuild

To test the bootstrapping as well, download autoproj_bootstrap-dev from 
the rock website:

   wget http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj_bootstrap-dev

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