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2004-12-13 * Patch deployment. `download.pl' (intended to be used in theEelco Dolstra3-34/+323
substitute mechanism) creates a store path by downloading full NAR archives and/or patches specified in the available manifests. Any combination of present paths, full downloads, and patches can be used to construct the target path. In particular, patches can be chained in sequence; and full NAR archives of the target path can be omitted (i.e., patch-only deployment is possible). A shortest path algorithm is used to find the smallest set of files to be downloaded (the edge weights are currently file sizes, but one can imagine taking the network speed to the various source into account). Patches are binary deltas between two store paths. To be precise, they are the output of the `bsdiff' program applied to the NAR archives obtained by dumping (`nix-store --dump') the two store paths. The advantage of diff'ing NAR archives (and not, say, doing file-by-file diffs) is that file renames/moves are handled automatically. The disadvantage is that we cannot optimise creation of unchanged files (by hard-linking).
2004-12-13 * Allow an optional hash to be provided. This prevents redundantEelco Dolstra1-20/+26
fetches.
2004-11-29 * Print out statistics comparing our performance to bzip2.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+20
2004-11-29 * utime() follows symlinks, so don't change the mtime if the file is aEelco Dolstra1-7/+8
symlink.
2004-11-29 * Proof-of-concept for binary patch deployment.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+31
2004-11-29 * Remove debug statement.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+0
2004-11-29 * Canonicalise metadata of all files in store paths (set the mtime toEelco Dolstra1-2/+58
0, set the mode to either 444 or 555, set the group to the default).
2004-11-14 * Bump version number to 0.7.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-11-14 * More manual fixes.Eelco Dolstra2-38/+35
2004-11-14 * Manual fixes.Eelco Dolstra3-51/+50
2004-11-12 * Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options.Eelco Dolstra2-0/+82
2004-11-12 * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate.Eelco Dolstra4-2/+40
2004-11-09 * Typos.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2004-11-08 * Fix broken format string.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-11-08 * Check exit status of pipe elements.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2004-11-07 * Documented the standard environment, including the generic builder.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+250
2004-11-07 * Everything you always wanted to know about functions and derivationsEelco Dolstra2-4/+203
but were afraid to ask.
2004-11-07 * Drop the grammar appendix.Eelco Dolstra1-7/+4
2004-11-07 * Put something in here.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+8
2004-11-07 * Operators, comments.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+123
2004-11-07 * Lets, inheritance, assertions.Eelco Dolstra1-10/+171
2004-11-05 * Typo fix.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-11-05 * Generic builders.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+84
2004-11-05 * Start of language reference.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+228
2004-11-05 * Finished GNU Hello walkthrough.Eelco Dolstra3-21/+293
2004-11-04 * Manual: writing Nix expressions.Eelco Dolstra2-117/+192
2004-11-04 * Better error messages.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+4
2004-11-03 * string2ATerm -> overloaded toATerm.Eelco Dolstra10-43/+61
2004-11-03 * Don't propagate our CFLAGS to the ATerm library since it breaks atEelco Dolstra1-2/+1
-O2.
2004-11-02 * chapter -> appendix.Eelco Dolstra2-2/+4
2004-11-01 * Section about channels.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+46
2004-11-01 * Section about garbage collection.Eelco Dolstra3-5/+71
2004-11-01 * Profiles section.Eelco Dolstra3-16/+165
2004-10-31 * Document setuid Nix installs.Eelco Dolstra2-7/+46
2004-10-31 * Add figures to `make install' / `make dist'.Eelco Dolstra3-2/+6
2004-10-31 * Fix `File exists' errors if the `result' symlink exists but isEelco Dolstra1-5/+4
dangling.
2004-10-29 * Began adding build farm docs.Eelco Dolstra3-0/+132
2004-10-29 * Drop ATmake / ATMatcher also in handling store expressions.Eelco Dolstra19-258/+118
2004-10-27 * Use `atdiff' instead of `cmp' for checking test output.Eelco Dolstra5-5/+9
* Don't use local file names in tests since they will produce different parse trees depending on the current directory.
2004-10-27 * Bug fix in parsing of /* ... */ comments; due to longest matchEelco Dolstra4-2/+14
regexp there could be only one such comment per file.
2004-10-27 * Remove ancient Fix tests.Eelco Dolstra32-87/+145
* Add automated Nix expression language tests.
2004-10-27 * Turn on read-only mode in queries. This prevents redundant store I/O.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2004-10-27 * Oops, I did it again.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2004-10-27 * Add file to `make dist'.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-26 * Bug: check that term is an application.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+3
2004-10-26 * Don't use ATmake / ATmatch anymore, nor the ATMatcher class.Eelco Dolstra11-304/+410
Instead we generate data bindings (build and match functions) for the constructors specified in `constructors.def'. In particular this removes the conversions between AFuns and strings, and Nix expression evaluation now seems 3 to 4 times faster.
2004-10-26 * Evaluate argument to `import'.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2004-10-26 * Doh!Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-26 * String/path concatenation operator (`+').Eelco Dolstra6-5/+43
2004-10-26 * Mode `--parse-only' to parse the input (on stdin, `-'), and printEelco Dolstra1-8/+28
out the AST as an ATerm. * Mode `--eval-only' to parse and evaluate the input, and print the resulting normal form as an ATerm. Neither of these modes require store/DB write permission.