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-<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- version="5.0"
- xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.6">
-
-<title>Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)</title>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para>Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel
- (option <option>-j</option>).</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell
- script to forward builds to Nix installations on remote
- machines, which may or may not be of the same platform
- type.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Option <option>--fallback</option> allows
- recovery from broken substitutes.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Option <option>--keep-going</option> causes
- building of other (unaffected) derivations to continue if one
- failed.</para></listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it
- should actually work now).</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be
- shared among multiple users.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Substitute registration is much faster
- now.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>A utility <command>nix-build</command> to build a
- Nix expression and create a symlink to the result int the current
- directory; useful for testing Nix derivations.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Manual updates.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem>
-
- <para><command>nix-env</command> changes:
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para>Derivations for other platforms are filtered out
- (which can be overridden using
- <option>--system-filter</option>).</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><option>--install</option> by default now
- uninstall previous derivations with the same
- name.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><option>--upgrade</option> allows upgrading to a
- specific version.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>New operation
- <option>--delete-generations</option> to remove profile
- generations (necessary for effective garbage
- collection).</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Nicer output (sorted,
- columnised).</para></listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder
- output is now shown always, unless <option>-Q</option> is
- given).</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem>
-
- <para>Nix expression language changes:
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para>New language construct: <literal>with
- <replaceable>E1</replaceable>;
- <replaceable>E2</replaceable></literal> brings all attributes
- defined in the attribute set <replaceable>E1</replaceable> in
- scope in <replaceable>E2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Added a <function>map</function>
- function.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Various new operators (e.g., string
- concatenation).</para></listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Expression evaluation is much
- faster.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with
- syntax highlighting and indentation) has been
- added.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>Many bug fixes.</para></listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</section>