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<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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<title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
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<section xml:id="release-notes-0.14">
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<title>Release 0.14 (June 4, 2012)</title>
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<para>
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In preparation for the switch from Subversion to Git, this release is mainly
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the prevent the Nixpkgs version number from going backwards. (This would
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happen because prerelease version numbers produced for the Git repository
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are lower than those for the Subversion repository.)
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</para>
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<para>
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Since the last release, there have been thousands of changes and new
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packages by numerous contributors. For details, see the commit logs.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="release-notes-0.13">
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<title>Release 0.13 (February 5, 2010)</title>
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<para>
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As always, there are many changes. Some of the most important updates are:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Glibc 2.9.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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GCC 4.3.3.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Linux 2.6.32.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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X.org 7.5.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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KDE 4.3.4.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="release-notes-0.12">
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<title>Release 0.12 (April 24, 2009)</title>
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<para>
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There are way too many additions to Nixpkgs since the last release to list
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here: for example, the number of packages on Linux has increased from 1002
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to 2159. However, some specific improvements are worth listing:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Nixpkgs now has a manual. In particular, it describes the standard build
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environment in detail.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Major new packages:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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KDE 4.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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TeXLive.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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VirtualBox.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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… and many others.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Important updates:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Glibc 2.7.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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GCC 4.2.4.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Linux 2.6.25 — 2.6.28.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Firefox 3.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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X.org 7.3.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Support for building derivations in a virtual machine, including RPM and
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Debian builds in automatically generated VM images. See
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<filename>pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix</filename> for details.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Improved support for building Haskell packages.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Arie
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Middelkoop, Armijn Hemel, Eelco Dolstra, Lluís Batlle, Ludovic Courtès,
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Marc Weber, Mart Kolthof, Martin Bravenboer, Michael Raskin, Nicolas
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Pierron, Peter Simons, Pjotr Prins, Rob Vermaas, Sander van der Burg, Tobias
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Hammerschmidt, Valentin David, Wouter den Breejen and Yury G. Kudryashov. In
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addition, several people contributed patches on the
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<literal>nix-dev</literal> mailing list.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="release-notes-0.11">
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<title>Release 0.11 (September 11, 2007)</title>
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<para>
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This release has the following improvements:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The standard build environment (<literal>stdenv</literal>) is now pure on
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the <literal>x86_64-linux</literal> and <literal>powerpc-linux</literal>
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platforms, just as on <literal>i686-linux</literal>. (Purity means that
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building and using the standard environment has no dependencies outside
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of the Nix store. For instance, it doesn’t require an external C
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compiler such as <filename>/usr/bin/gcc</filename>.) Also, the statically
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linked binaries used in the bootstrap process are now automatically
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reproducible, making it easy to update the bootstrap tools and to add
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support for other Linux platforms. See
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<filename>pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix</filename> for
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details.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Hook variables in the generic builder are now executed using the
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<function>eval</function> shell command. This has a major advantage: you
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can write hooks directly in Nix expressions. For instance, rather than
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writing a builder like this:
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<programlisting>
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source $stdenv/setup
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postInstall=postInstall
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postInstall() {
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ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip
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ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat
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}
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genericBuild</programlisting>
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(the <literal>gzip</literal> builder), you can just add this attribute to
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the derivation:
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<programlisting>
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postInstall = "ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip; ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat";</programlisting>
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and so a separate build script becomes unnecessary. This should allow us
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to get rid of most builders in Nixpkgs.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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It is now possible to have the generic builder pass arguments to
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<command>configure</command> and <command>make</command> that contain
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whitespace. Previously, for example, you could say in a builder,
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<programlisting>
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configureFlags="CFLAGS=-O0"</programlisting>
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but not
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<programlisting>
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configureFlags="CFLAGS=-O0 -g"</programlisting>
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since the <literal>-g</literal> would be interpreted as a separate
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argument to <command>configure</command>. Now you can say
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<programlisting>
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configureFlagsArray=("CFLAGS=-O0 -g")</programlisting>
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or similarly
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<programlisting>
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configureFlagsArray=("CFLAGS=-O0 -g" "LDFLAGS=-L/foo -L/bar")</programlisting>
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which does the right thing. Idem for <literal>makeFlags</literal>,
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<literal>installFlags</literal>, <literal>checkFlags</literal> and
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<literal>distFlags</literal>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Unfortunately you can't pass arrays to Bash through the environment, so
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you can't put the array above in a Nix expression, e.g.,
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<programlisting>
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configureFlagsArray = ["CFLAGS=-O0 -g"];</programlisting>
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since it would just be flattened to a since string. However, you
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<emphasis>can</emphasis> use the inline hooks described above:
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<programlisting>
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preConfigure = "configureFlagsArray=(\"CFLAGS=-O0 -g\")";</programlisting>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The function <function>fetchurl</function> now has support for two
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different kinds of mirroring of files. First, it has support for
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<emphasis>content-addressable mirrors</emphasis>. For example, given the
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<function>fetchurl</function> call
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<programlisting>
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fetchurl {
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url = http://releases.mozilla.org/<replaceable>...</replaceable>/firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2;
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sha1 = "eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082";
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}</programlisting>
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<function>fetchurl</function> will first try to download this file from
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<link
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xlink:href="http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha1/eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082"/>.
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If that file doesn’t exist, it will try the original URL. In general,
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the “content-addressed” location is
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<replaceable>mirror</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>hash-type</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>.
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There is currently only one content-addressable mirror
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(<link
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xlink:href="http://tarballs.nixos.org"/>), but more can be
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specified in the <varname>hashedMirrors</varname> attribute in
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<filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename>, or by
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setting the <envar>NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS</envar> environment variable to a
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whitespace-separated list of URLs.
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</para>
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<para>
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Second, <function>fetchurl</function> has support for widely-mirrored
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distribution sites such as SourceForge or the Linux kernel archives.
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Given a URL of the form
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<literal>mirror://<replaceable>site</replaceable>/<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal>,
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it will try to download <replaceable>path</replaceable> from a
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configurable list of mirrors for <replaceable>site</replaceable>. (This
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idea was borrowed from Gentoo Linux.) Example:
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<programlisting>
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fetchurl {
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url = mirror://gnu/gcc/gcc-4.2.0/gcc-core-4.2.0.tar.bz2;
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sha256 = "0ykhzxhr8857dr97z0j9wyybfz1kjr71xk457cfapfw5fjas4ny1";
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}</programlisting>
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Currently <replaceable>site</replaceable> can be
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<literal>sourceforge</literal>, <literal>gnu</literal> and
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<literal>kernel</literal>. The list of mirrors is defined in
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<filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename>. You can
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override the list of mirrors for a particular site by setting the
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environment variable
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<envar>NIX_MIRRORS_<replaceable>site</replaceable></envar>, e.g.
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<programlisting>
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export NIX_MIRRORS_sourceforge=http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/</programlisting>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Important updates:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Glibc 2.5.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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GCC 4.1.2.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Gnome 2.16.3.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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X11R7.2.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Linux 2.6.21.7 and 2.6.22.6.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Emacs 22.1.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Major new packages:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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KDE 3.5.6 Base.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Wine 0.9.43.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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OpenOffice 2.2.1.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Many Linux system packages to support NixOS.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Arie
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Middelkoop, Armijn Hemel, Eelco Dolstra, Marc Weber, Mart Kolthof, Martin
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Bravenboer, Michael Raskin, Wouter den Breejen and Yury G. Kudryashov.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="release-notes-0.10">
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<title>Release 0.10 (October 12, 2006)</title>
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<note>
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<para>
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This release of Nixpkgs requires
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<link
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xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-0.10/'>Nix 0.10</link>
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or higher.
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</para>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release has the following improvements:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<filename>pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix</filename> is gone, we now
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just have <filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename> that
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contains all available packages. This should cause much less confusion
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with users. <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> is a function that by
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default returns packages for the current platform, but you can override
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this by specifying a different <varname>system</varname> argument.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Certain packages in Nixpkgs are now user-configurable through a
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configuration file, i.e., without having to edit the Nix expressions in
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Nixpkgs. For instance, the Firefox provided in the Nixpkgs channel is
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built without the RealPlayer plugin (for legal reasons). Previously, you
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could easily enable RealPlayer support by editing the call to the Firefox
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function in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>, but such changes are
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not respected when Firefox is subsequently updated through the Nixpkgs
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channel.
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</para>
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<para>
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The Nixpkgs configuration file (found in
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<filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> or through the
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<envar>NIXPKGS_CONFIG</envar> environment variable) is an attribute set
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that contains configuration options that
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<filename>all-packages.nix</filename> reads and uses for certain packages.
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For instance, the following configuration file:
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<programlisting>
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{
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firefox = {
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enableRealPlayer = true;
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};
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}</programlisting>
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persistently enables RealPlayer support in the Firefox build.
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</para>
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<para>
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(Actually, <literal>firefox.enableRealPlayer</literal> is the
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<emphasis>only</emphasis> configuration option currently available, but
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more are sure to be added.)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Support for new platforms:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>i686-cygwin</literal>, i.e., Windows (using
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<link xlink:href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</link>). The standard
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environment on <literal>i686-cygwin</literal> by default builds
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binaries for the Cygwin environment (i.e., it uses Cygwin tools and
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produces executables that use the Cygwin library). However, there is
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also a standard environment that produces binaries that use
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<link
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xlink:href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</link>. You can
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use it by calling <filename>all-package.nix</filename> with the
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<varname>stdenvType</varname> argument set to
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<literal>"i686-mingw"</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>i686-darwin</literal>, i.e., Mac OS X on Intel CPUs.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>powerpc-linux</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>x86_64-linux</literal>, i.e., Linux on 64-bit AMD/Intel CPUs.
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Unlike <literal>i686-linux</literal>, this platform doesn’t have a
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pure <literal>stdenv</literal> yet.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The default compiler is now GCC 4.1.1.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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X11 updated to X.org’s X11R7.1.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Notable new packages:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Opera.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and the Windows SDK.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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In total there are now around 809 packages in Nixpkgs.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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It is now <emphasis>much</emphasis> easier to override the default C
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compiler and other tools in <literal>stdenv</literal> for specific
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packages. <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> provides two utility
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functions for this purpose: <function>overrideGCC</function> and
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<function>overrideInStdenv</function>. Both take a
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<literal>stdenv</literal> and return an augmented
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<literal>stdenv</literal>; the formed changes the C compiler, and the
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latter adds additional packages to the front of
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<literal>stdenv</literal>’s initial <envar>PATH</envar>, allowing tools
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to be overridden.
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</para>
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<para>
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For instance, the package <varname>strategoxt</varname> doesn’t build
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with the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv</literal> (version 3.81), so we call
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it with an augmented <literal>stdenv</literal> that uses GNU Make 3.80:
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<programlisting>
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strategoxt = (import ../development/compilers/strategoxt) {
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inherit fetchurl pkgconfig sdf aterm;
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stdenv = overrideInStdenv stdenv [gnumake380];
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};
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gnumake380 = <replaceable>...</replaceable>;</programlisting>
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Likewise, there are many packages that don’t compile with the default
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GCC (4.1.1), but that’s easily fixed:
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<programlisting>
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exult = import ../games/exult {
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inherit fetchurl SDL SDL_mixer zlib libpng unzip;
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stdenv = overrideGCC stdenv gcc34;
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};</programlisting>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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It has also become much easier to experiment with changes to the
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<literal>stdenv</literal> setup script (which notably contains the generic
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builder). Since edits to <filename>pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh</filename>
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trigger a rebuild of <emphasis>everything</emphasis>, this was formerly
|
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quite painful. But now <literal>stdenv</literal> contains a function to
|
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“regenerate” <literal>stdenv</literal> with a different setup script,
|
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allowing the use of a different setup script for specific packages:
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<programlisting>
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pkg = import <replaceable>...</replaceable> {
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stdenv = stdenv.regenerate ./my-setup.sh;
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<replaceable>...</replaceable>
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}</programlisting>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Packages can now have a human-readable <emphasis>description</emphasis>
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field. Package descriptions are shown by <literal>nix-env -qa
|
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--description</literal>. In addition, they’re shown on the Nixpkgs
|
||
release page. A description can be added to a package as follows:
|
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<programlisting>
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stdenv.mkDerivation {
|
||
name = "exult-1.2";
|
||
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
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meta = {
|
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description = "A reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine";
|
||
};
|
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}</programlisting>
|
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The <varname>meta</varname> attribute is not passed to the builder, so
|
||
changes to the description do not trigger a rebuild. Additional
|
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<varname>meta</varname> attributes may be defined in the future (such as
|
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the URL of the package’s homepage, the license, etc.).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Armijn Hemel,
|
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Christof Douma, Eelco Dolstra, Eelco Visser, Mart Kolthof, Martin
|
||
Bravenboer, Merijn de Jonge, Rob Vermaas and Roy van den Broek.
|
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</para>
|
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</section>
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<section xml:id="release-notes-0.9">
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<title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title>
|
||
|
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<para>
|
||
There have been zillions of changes since the last release of Nixpkgs. Many
|
||
packages have been added or updated. The following are some of the more
|
||
notable changes:
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Distribution files have been moved to
|
||
<link
|
||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The C library on Linux, Glibc, has been updated to version 2.3.6.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The default compiler is now GCC 3.4.5. GCC 4.0.2 is also available.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The old, unofficial Xlibs has been replaced by the official modularised
|
||
X11 distribution from X.org, i.e., X11R7.0. X11R7.0 consists of 287 (!)
|
||
packages, all of which are in Nixpkgs though not all have been tested. It
|
||
is now possible to build a 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 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 NixOS.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Hardware-accelerated OpenGL support, used by games like Quake 3 (which is
|
||
now built from source).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Improved support for FreeBSD on x86.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Improved Haskell support; e.g., the GHC build is now pure.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Some support for cross-compilation: cross-compiling builds of GCC and
|
||
Binutils, and cross-compiled builds of the C library uClibc.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Notable new packages:
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
teTeX, including support for building LaTeX documents using Nix (with
|
||
automatic dependency determination).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Ruby.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
System-level packages to support NixOS, e.g. Grub, GNU
|
||
<literal>parted</literal> and so on.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<literal>ecj</literal>, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, so we finally
|
||
have a freely distributable compiler that supports Java 5.0.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<literal>php</literal>.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The GIMP.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Inkscape.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
GAIM.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
<literal>kdelibs</literal>. This allows us to add KDE-based packages
|
||
(such as <literal>kcachegrind</literal>).
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<para>
|
||
The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Armijn Hemel,
|
||
Bogdan Dumitriu, Christof Douma, Eelco Dolstra, Eelco Visser, Mart Kolthof,
|
||
Martin Bravenboer, Rob Vermaas and Roy van den Broek.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section xml:id="release-notes-0.8">
|
||
<title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title>
|
||
|
||
<para>
|
||
This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed hashing
|
||
scheme in Nix 0.8.
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<para>
|
||
Notable updates:
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Adobe Reader 7.0
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section xml:id="release-notes-0.7">
|
||
<title>Release 0.7 (March 14, 2005)</title>
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
The bootstrap process for the standard build environment on Linux
|
||
(stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no longer dependent in its initial
|
||
bootstrap stages on the system Glibc, GCC, and other tools. Rather,
|
||
Nixpkgs contains a statically linked bash and curl, and uses that to
|
||
download other statically linked tools. These are then used to build a
|
||
Glibc and dynamically linked versions of all other tools.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For instance, GCC is
|
||
built only once instead of three times.
|
||
</para>
|
||
<para>
|
||
(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server 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>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules. See the
|
||
various Perl modules defined in pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Notable new packages:
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Qt 3
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
MySQL
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
MythTV
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Mono
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
MonoDevelop (alpha)
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Xine
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Notable updates:
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
GCC 3.4.3
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Glibc 2.3.4
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
GTK 2.6
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|