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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index 6dace1bfd..5379eadef 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ <title>Nix Release Notes</title> + +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.10 (TBA)</title> <note><para>This version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.4 instead of 4.3. @@ -23,19 +26,45 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>An option <option>--compare-versions</option> (or - <option>-c</option>) has been added to <command>nix-env - --query</command> to allow you to compare installed versions of - packages to available versions, or vice versa. An easy way to see - if you are up to date with what’s in the channel is <literal>nix-env - -qc \*</literal>.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para><literal>nix-env --query</literal> now takes as - arguments a list of package names about which to show information, - just like <option>--install</option>, etc.: for example, - <literal>nix-env -q gcc</literal>. Note that to show all - derivations, you need to specify - <literal>\*</literal>.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> usability improvements: + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>An option <option>--compare-versions</option> + (or <option>-c</option>) has been added to <command>nix-env + --query</command> to allow you to compare installed versions of + packages to available versions, or vice versa. An easy way to + see if you are up to date with what’s in the channel is + <literal>nix-env -qc \*</literal>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><literal>nix-env --query</literal> now takes as + arguments a list of package names about which to show + information, just like <option>--install</option>, etc.: for + example, <literal>nix-env -q gcc</literal>. Note that to show + all derivations, you need to specify + <literal>\*</literal>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><literal>nix-env -i + <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></literal> will now install + the highest available version of + <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable>, rather than installing all + available versions (which would probably give collisions) + (<literal>NIX-31</literal>).</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><literal>nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run</literal> now + shows exactly which missing paths will be built or + substituted.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para><literal>nix-env -qa --description</literal> + shows human-readable descriptions of packages, provided that + they have a <literal>meta.description</literal> attribute (which + most packages in Nixpkgs don’t have yet).</para></listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Berkeley DB 4.4’s process registry feature is used to recover from crashed Nix processes.</para></listitem> @@ -62,7 +91,8 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Reference scanning (which happens after each - build) is much faster.</para></listitem> + build) is much faster and takes a constant amount of + memory.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>String interpolation. Expressions like @@ -80,15 +110,23 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> <listitem><para>Multi-line string literals.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>TODO: string concatenations involving - derivations. Consequently, the subpath operator + <listitem><para>String concatenations can now involve + derivations, as in the example above — + <code>"--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib"</code>. + This was not previously possible because we need to register + that a derivation that uses such a string is dependent on + <literal>freetype</literal>. The evaluator now properly + propagates this information. Consequently, the subpath operator (<literal>~</literal>) has been deprecated.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>TODO: function argument default values can refer - to other function arguments - (<literal>NIX-45</literal>)</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Default values of function arguments can now + refer to other function arguments; that is, all arguments are in + scope in the default values + (<literal>NIX-45</literal>).</para></listitem> + <!-- <listitem><para>TODO: domain checks (r5895).</para></listitem> + --> </itemizedlist> @@ -108,7 +146,7 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> <listitem><para>New commands <command>nix-pack-closure</command> and <command>nix-unpack-closure</command> than can be used to easily - transfer a stire path with all its dependencies to another machine. + transfer a store path with all its dependencies to another machine. Very convenient whenever you have some package on your machine and you want to copy it somewhere else.</para></listitem> @@ -187,24 +225,30 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>TODO: XML support in <literal>nix-env -q - --xml</literal> and <literal>nix-instantiate --eval-only - --xml</literal>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>XML support: + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para><literal>nix-env -q --xml</literal> prints the + installed or available packages in an XML representation for + easy processing by other tools.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para><literal>nix-env -i - <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></literal> will now install the - highest available version of <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable>, - rather than installing all available versions (which would probably - give collisions) (<literal>NIX-31</literal>).</para></listitem> + <listitem><para><literal>nix-instantiate --eval-only + --xml</literal> prints an XML representation of the resulting + term. (The new flag <option>--strict</option> forces ‘deep’ + evaluation of the result, i.e., list elements and attributes are + evaluated recursively.)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para><literal>nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run</literal> now - shows exactly which missing paths will be built or - substituted.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>In Nix expressions, the primop + <function>builtins.toXML</function> converts a term to an XML + representation. This is primarily useful for passing structured + information to builders.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para><literal>nix-env -qa --description</literal> shows - human-readable descriptions of packages, provided that they have a - <literal>meta.description</literal> attribute (which most packages - in Nixpkgs don’t have yet).</para></listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Nix source distributions are a lot smaller now since we no longer include a full copy of the Berkeley DB source @@ -215,6 +259,11 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> patched ATerm library</link> is used. Also, files larger than 2 GiB are now supported.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Users of SMP and multicore machines will appreciate + that the number of builds to be performed in parallel can now be + specified in the configuration file in the + <literal>build-max-jobs</literal> setting.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Added support for Cygwin (Windows, <literal>i686-cygwin</literal>) and Mac OS X on Intel (<literal>i686-darwin</literal>).</para></listitem> @@ -227,6 +276,9 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> </section> + +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.9.2 (September 21, 2005)</title> <para>This bug fix release fixes two problems on Mac OS X: @@ -252,6 +304,8 @@ irreversible.</para></warning> +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.9.1 (September 20, 2005)</title> <para>This bug fix release addresses a problem with the ATerm library @@ -262,6 +316,8 @@ when the <option>--with-aterm</option> flag in +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.9 (September 16, 2005)</title> <para>NOTE: this version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.3 instead of 4.2. @@ -357,6 +413,8 @@ svnService = derivation { +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.8.1 (April 13, 2005)</title> <para>This is a bug fix release.</para> @@ -375,6 +433,8 @@ svnService = derivation { +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title> <para>NOTE: the hashing scheme in Nix 0.8 changed (as detailed below). @@ -615,6 +675,8 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper'</screen> +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.7 (January 12, 2005)</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -647,6 +709,8 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper'</screen> +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.6 (November 14, 2004)</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -766,6 +830,8 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper'</screen> +<!--==================================================================--> + <section><title>Release 0.5 and earlier</title> <para>Please refer to the Subversion commit log messages.</para> |