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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2006-10-06 13:37:31 +0000
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2006-10-06 13:37:31 +0000
commit921c08c7b39039766b21676f88eda173da9d6a49 (patch)
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parent808846b2c934abeb10b3d82c2da0f58d5b025285 (diff)
* Start of Nixpkgs 0.10 release notes.
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@@ -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>