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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-10-06 13:37:31 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-10-06 13:37:31 +0000 |
commit | 921c08c7b39039766b21676f88eda173da9d6a49 (patch) | |
tree | 6fd25823853879af66da48a761d44597eae7d81d /doc/release-notes.xml | |
parent | 808846b2c934abeb10b3d82c2da0f58d5b025285 (diff) |
* Start of Nixpkgs 0.10 release notes.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6676
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.xml b/doc/release-notes.xml index ec605661ce75..7a6eca7e112e 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/release-notes.xml @@ -1,11 +1,47 @@ -<?xml version="1.0"?> -<!DOCTYPE book - PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" - "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbook-xml-4.3.zip" -[ -]> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> -<article><title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title> +<title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title> + + +<section><title>Release 0.10 (October ???, 2006)</title> + +<note><para>This release of Nixpkgs requires <link +xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nix-0.10/'>Nix +0.10</link>.</para></note> + +<para>This release has the following improvements:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>TODO: user configurability. Configuration file in + <filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The default compiler is now GCC 4.1.1.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>X11 updated to X11R7.1.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Opera.</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +<para>The following people contributed to this release: + + Andres Löh, + Armijn Hemel, + Christof Douma, + Eelco Dolstra, + Eelco Visser, + Mart Kolthof, + Martin Bravenboer, + Merijn de Jonge, + Rob Vermaas and + Roy van den Broek. + +</para> + +</section> <section><title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title> @@ -16,8 +52,8 @@ some of the more notable changes:</para> <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink - url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <link + xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The C library on Linux, Glibc, has been updated to version 2.3.6.</para></listitem> @@ -32,7 +68,7 @@ some of the more notable changes:</para> working X server (previously we only had X client libraries). We use a fully Nixified X server on NixOS.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesn't + <listitem><para>The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesn’t require any non-Nix components such as <filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>. This means that Java applications such as Eclipse and Azureus can run on @@ -149,9 +185,10 @@ hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.</para> <listitem> <para>Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server - that hosts Nixpkgs (<ulink url="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/" />). - This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or - deleted files on various servers.</para> + that hosts Nixpkgs (<link + xlink:href="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/" />). This reduces the + risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or deleted files on + various servers.</para> </listitem> |