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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.
2004-10-25 * New language feature: with expressions.Eelco Dolstra7-27/+61
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in the attribute set E1 substituted. E.g., with {x = 123;}; x evaluates to 123. That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2. This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots definitions. E.g., instead of let { inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f; body = ... a ... f ...; } we can now say with import ./foo.nix; ... a ... f ... I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-10-25 * Allow certain operations to succeed even if we don't have writeEelco Dolstra9-16/+58
permission to the Nix store or database. E.g., `nix-env -qa' will work, but `nix-env -qas' won't (the latter needs DB access). The option `--readonly-mode' forces this mode; otherwise, it's only activated when the database cannot be opened.
2004-10-25 * Revert r1594 - it didn't solve the problem. Instead addEelco Dolstra3-4/+5
svn-revision to distributions, which should fix it.
2004-10-25 * Make sure that the prerelease version is included in `--version'.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+3
2004-10-21 * Updated NEWS for the upcoming 0.6 release.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+62
2004-10-20 * Register channels as roots of the garbage collector (inEelco Dolstra2-3/+22
$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/channels). * In setuid installations, create gcroots/tmp and gcroots/channels group-writable.
2004-10-20 * Fix nix-prefetch-url in setuid Nix installations.Eelco Dolstra1-9/+20
2004-10-20 * Show error messages from curl.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-18 * Instead of — use the actual Unicode character. By the way, toEelco Dolstra3-15/+15
edit the manual, you should have something like (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8) in your ~/.emacs.
2004-10-14 * Rewrite of package management stuff.Eelco Dolstra1-200/+161
2004-10-14 * In `nix-env -q', sort derivations by name *without* caseEelco Dolstra1-1/+9
sensitivity.
2004-10-14 * Split overview chapter into a chapter on package management and aEelco Dolstra6-455/+384
chapter on writing Nix expressions.
2004-10-14 * Unindent.Eelco Dolstra1-164/+126
2004-10-13 * Updated the quick start section. Use channels instead ofEelco Dolstra1-105/+83
downloading Nix expressions and calling nix-pull. This is so user-friendly that even a Mac user can do it! :-)
2004-10-13 * Better introduction.Eelco Dolstra3-120/+123
* Set notes in a different color than warnings.