* Updated info on changes

* Fixed fomatting of target variables to _not_create additional section entries
* Changed creation of job specific config to exclude sections from other jobs
* Added job specific override of files section

* Updated version info in setup script
* Added PDF documentation to distribution setup

* Updated change list and user guide appropriately

* Added function add_days to handle day offsets for namelist settings

* Updated change list and documentation
* Added PDF version of documentation
* Updated version info in setup script

* Changed split_date to also handle YYYYMMDD dates
* Added function add_years to handle year offsets for namelist settings

* Added README mode to 'getexp'
* Changed 'getexp' output from warning to info
* Added option to skip directory creation for config tests (--no-make-dirs/-m)
* Support for default configuration settings by model build (SETUP.config)
* Added User Guide

Added option to skip creation of work and data directories to allow test runs on other machines (--no-make-dirs/-m)

Changed handling of blank environment, fixed section handling on command line, cleaned up testing, added release changes

* Changed behavior if environment name is set but empty: now uses default instead of looking for '' environment
* Fixed command line handling: different variables in the same section are now all recognized (see IssueID #5501). The test cases are updated accordingly
* Re-organized test cases to group command line handling in its own class
* Added empty [namelists] section to test config, simplifying test writing
* Added CHANGES.txt for upcoming release 0.3.0, updated setup to 0.3.0dev

* Added traversal (walk) function to parse keys and values for verbatim target variables, i.e. variables of the generated script language
* Added environment functions to temporarily reset the string used for new lines. Needed to work around the missing 'wrapstring' keyword in Jinja 2.6
* Added context function to allow querying context variables by name within templates. Needed to get default values for target variables.

Added configurable variable format to namelist values. Variables $${x} are now recognized as script native variables. Defining .var_format allows different script syntax, e.g. XML style (.var_format = <%s>)

Fixed override behaviour for global job config: now specialized job config will always override global job config

* Added new control variable 'EXP_OPTIONS', taking a list of config names. Options are taken from the new 'standard_options' subdirectory
* Added respective test and simplified test module

* Added setting of sectioned variables via command line, using '.' as section path separator and '..' for verbatim periods
* Added automated testing using Python's unittest library
* Disambiguated warning due to missing experiment configuration; now mentions 'experiment'. 

* Added python methods list.split() and filter() to template environment for advanced template macros (file lists)
* Changed job script template search to allow local <EXP_ID>.<JOB.id>.tmpl override standard experiment templates.

* Changed to use directories for backup, leaving file names unchanged
* Added README file to backup

* Logging
** Fixed bailout routine to allow message format arguments
** Explicitly added default warning level for ease of debugging
* Added verbose mode to getexp, showing all top level variable settings
* Fixed template loading to allow out of directory generation (-p, MKEXP_PATH)

* r3545: Changed to parse namelist section comments for example key assignments.

Unified handling of remove keywords in job configuration, added remove keyword for namelist variables

* r3359: Script generation: improved documentation (README, user guide), fixed time limits, number of tasks override
* r3358: Downgraded automake use to 1.13.1 installed as module in squeeze.
* r3357: J.S.Rast: Added missing profile viewgraphs.

* r3341: Changed comments in namelist to deal with inline comments and empty lines

* Moved mvstream settings to default configuration
* Adapted examples accordingly and updated README and docs
* Changed blizzard setup to use /scratch for working, read account from .acct

* Added missing file to r3147

* Changed to use argparse library for command line handling
* Added option to set search path for standard configuration (--path)
* Added use of config file comments in namelist files

* Added support for search path to getexp (amends r3166)
* Added support for keyword substitution to default environment (amends r3061)

Changed script generator to allow a path for config files and templates (MKEXP_PATH); directories are separated by colon.

* Added optional template for namelists (namcouple)
* Added info line for generated files (mkexp_input variable)
* Added model directory to 'getexp' output