From a9a6356ffceeb346b9de1f7640932a27bf90ce1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:43:00 +0000 Subject: * Release notes. --- doc/manual/release-notes.xml | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml | 8 -- 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/manual') diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index 6dace1bfdf3d..5379eadef800 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Nix Release Notes + + +
Release 0.10 (TBA) This version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.4 instead of 4.3. @@ -23,19 +26,45 @@ irreversible. - An option (or - ) has been added to nix-env - --query to allow you to compare installed versions of - packages to available versions, or vice versa. An easy way to see - if you are up to date with what’s in the channel is nix-env - -qc \*. - nix-env --query now takes as - arguments a list of package names about which to show information, - just like , etc.: for example, - nix-env -q gcc. Note that to show all - derivations, you need to specify - \*. + nix-env usability improvements: + + + + An option + (or ) has been added to nix-env + --query to allow you to compare installed versions of + packages to available versions, or vice versa. An easy way to + see if you are up to date with what’s in the channel is + nix-env -qc \*. + + nix-env --query now takes as + arguments a list of package names about which to show + information, just like , etc.: for + example, nix-env -q gcc. Note that to show + all derivations, you need to specify + \*. + + nix-env -i + pkgname will now install + the highest available version of + pkgname, rather than installing all + available versions (which would probably give collisions) + (NIX-31). + + nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run now + shows exactly which missing paths will be built or + substituted. + + nix-env -qa --description + shows human-readable descriptions of packages, provided that + they have a meta.description attribute (which + most packages in Nixpkgs don’t have yet). + + + + + Berkeley DB 4.4’s process registry feature is used to recover from crashed Nix processes. @@ -62,7 +91,8 @@ irreversible. Reference scanning (which happens after each - build) is much faster. + build) is much faster and takes a constant amount of + memory. String interpolation. Expressions like @@ -80,15 +110,23 @@ irreversible. Multi-line string literals. - TODO: string concatenations involving - derivations. Consequently, the subpath operator + String concatenations can now involve + derivations, as in the example above — + "--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib". + This was not previously possible because we need to register + that a derivation that uses such a string is dependent on + freetype. The evaluator now properly + propagates this information. Consequently, the subpath operator (~) has been deprecated. - TODO: function argument default values can refer - to other function arguments - (NIX-45) + Default values of function arguments can now + refer to other function arguments; that is, all arguments are in + scope in the default values + (NIX-45). + @@ -108,7 +146,7 @@ irreversible. New commands nix-pack-closure and nix-unpack-closure than can be used to easily - transfer a stire path with all its dependencies to another machine. + transfer a store path with all its dependencies to another machine. Very convenient whenever you have some package on your machine and you want to copy it somewhere else. @@ -187,24 +225,30 @@ irreversible. - TODO: XML support in nix-env -q - --xml and nix-instantiate --eval-only - --xml. + + XML support: + + + + nix-env -q --xml prints the + installed or available packages in an XML representation for + easy processing by other tools. - nix-env -i - pkgname will now install the - highest available version of pkgname, - rather than installing all available versions (which would probably - give collisions) (NIX-31). + nix-instantiate --eval-only + --xml prints an XML representation of the resulting + term. (The new flag forces ‘deep’ + evaluation of the result, i.e., list elements and attributes are + evaluated recursively.) - nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run now - shows exactly which missing paths will be built or - substituted. + In Nix expressions, the primop + builtins.toXML converts a term to an XML + representation. This is primarily useful for passing structured + information to builders. - nix-env -qa --description shows - human-readable descriptions of packages, provided that they have a - meta.description attribute (which most packages - in Nixpkgs don’t have yet). + + + + Nix source distributions are a lot smaller now since we no longer include a full copy of the Berkeley DB source @@ -215,6 +259,11 @@ irreversible. patched ATerm library is used. Also, files larger than 2 GiB are now supported. + Users of SMP and multicore machines will appreciate + that the number of builds to be performed in parallel can now be + specified in the configuration file in the + build-max-jobs setting. + Added support for Cygwin (Windows, i686-cygwin) and Mac OS X on Intel (i686-darwin). @@ -227,6 +276,9 @@ irreversible.
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Release 0.9.2 (September 21, 2005) This bug fix release fixes two problems on Mac OS X: @@ -252,6 +304,8 @@ irreversible. + +
Release 0.9.1 (September 20, 2005) This bug fix release addresses a problem with the ATerm library @@ -262,6 +316,8 @@ when the flag in + +
Release 0.9 (September 16, 2005) NOTE: this version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.3 instead of 4.2. @@ -357,6 +413,8 @@ svnService = derivation { + +
Release 0.8.1 (April 13, 2005) This is a bug fix release. @@ -375,6 +433,8 @@ svnService = derivation { + +
Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005) NOTE: the hashing scheme in Nix 0.8 changed (as detailed below). @@ -615,6 +675,8 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper' + +
Release 0.7 (January 12, 2005) @@ -647,6 +709,8 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper' + +
Release 0.6 (November 14, 2004) @@ -766,6 +830,8 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper' + +
Release 0.5 and earlier Please refer to the Subversion commit log messages. diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml index 5b522ea1d1f9..6f52eb93b35f 100644 --- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml +++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml @@ -1035,14 +1035,6 @@ weakest binding). - - e1 ~ e2 - none - Construct a reference to a subpath of a derivation. - E.g., hello ~ "/bin/sh" refers to the - /bin/sh path within the Hello derivation. - Useful in specifying derivation attributes. - e ? id -- cgit 1.4.1