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diff --git a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.16.xml b/third_party/nix/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.16.xml deleted file mode 100644 index af1edc0ebb..0000000000 --- a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.16.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -<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="ssec-relnotes-0.16"> - -<title>Release 0.16 (2010-08-17)</title> - -<para>This release has the following improvements:</para> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para>The Nix expression evaluator is now much faster in most - cases: typically, <link - xlink:href="http://www.mail-archive.com/nix-dev@cs.uu.nl/msg04113.html">3 - to 8 times compared to the old implementation</link>. It also - uses less memory. It no longer depends on the ATerm - library.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Support for configurable parallelism inside builders. Build - scripts have always had the ability to perform multiple build - actions in parallel (for instance, by running <command>make -j - 2</command>), but this was not desirable because the number of - actions to be performed in parallel was not configurable. Nix - now has an option <option>--cores - <replaceable>N</replaceable></option> as well as a configuration - setting <varname>build-cores = - <replaceable>N</replaceable></varname> that causes the - environment variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> to be set to - <replaceable>N</replaceable> when the builder is invoked. The - builder can use this at its discretion to perform a parallel - build, e.g., by calling <command>make -j - <replaceable>N</replaceable></command>. In Nixpkgs, this can be - enabled on a per-package basis by setting the derivation - attribute <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> to - <literal>true</literal>. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><command>nix-store -q</command> now supports XML output - through the <option>--xml</option> flag.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Several bug fixes.</para> - </listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -</section> |