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2006-08-01	* Better error checking.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2006-07-28	* `nix-instantiate ... --arg NAME VALUE': allow arguments to be passed	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+10
	to functions from the command line. * nix-build: started removing backticks.
2006-03-14	* Allow the resulting symlink of nix-build to be named, e.g.,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+31
	$ nix-build .../i686-linux.nix -A apacheHttpd -o apache
2006-03-03	* More online help.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+15

2006-03-03	* Rewrote nix-build in Perl, since sh is just too limited (turns out	Eelco Dolstra	1	-78/+87
	that arrays are a bash extension, so it didn't work on FreeBSD). Also fixes NIX-8 (readlink(1) dependency).
2006-02-10	* Enable the --attr in nix-build as well (and add -A as an alias).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+15
	Example: $ nix-build ./all-packages.nix -A xlibs.libX11 So finally it's easy to perform a test build of a Nix expression!
2005-07-13	* nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-28/+38
	So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-02-01	* Remove debug code.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2005-02-01	* nix-build: use an indirection scheme to make it easier for users to	Eelco Dolstra	1	-17/+28
	get rid of GC roots. Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the current directory. Previously, removing that symlink would not remove the store path being linked to as a GC root. Now, the GC root created by nix-build is actually a symlink in `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto' to `result'. So if that symlink is removed the GC root automatically becomes invalid (since it can no longer be resolved). The root itself is not automatically removed - the garbage collector should delete dangling roots.
2005-02-01	* nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' to	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+9
	immediately add the result as a permanent GC root. This is the only way to prevent a race with the garbage collector. For instance, the old style ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \ /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively). On the other hand, nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \ $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \ foo.nix) is safe. * nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-01-27	* Fix and simplify the garbage collector (it's still not concurrent,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	though). In particular it's now much easier to register a GC root. Just place a symlink to whatever store path it is that you want to keep in /nix/var/nix/gcroots.
2005-01-14	* Use absolute paths.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2004-12-20	* Place manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifests.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+0
	* Use the new patch downloader.
2004-10-31	* Fix `File exists' errors if the `result' symlink exists but is	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+4
	dangling.
2004-08-18	* Flag `--no-link' suppresses symlinking to the output path.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-11/+19
	* Handle multiple derivations correctly.
2004-07-28	* Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the current directory to the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+10
	store object just built.
2004-06-22	* Nix-instantiate can return multiple store expressions.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+3

2004-06-22	* A utility script `nix-build' that builds Nix expressions and prints	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+23
	their output paths (and only that) on standard output.