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# Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)
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- Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
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- Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel (option `-j`).
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- Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell script to forward
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builds to Nix installations on remote machines, which may or may
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not be of the same platform type.
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- Option `--fallback` allows recovery from broken substitutes.
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- Option `--keep-going` causes building of other (unaffected)
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derivations to continue if one failed.
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- Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it should actually work
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now).
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- Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be shared among
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multiple users.
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- Substitute registration is much faster now.
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- A utility `nix-build` to build a Nix expression and create a symlink
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to the result int the current directory; useful for testing Nix
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derivations.
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- Manual updates.
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- `nix-env` changes:
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- Derivations for other platforms are filtered out (which can be
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overridden using `--system-filter`).
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- `--install` by default now uninstall previous derivations with
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the same name.
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- `--upgrade` allows upgrading to a specific version.
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- New operation `--delete-generations` to remove profile
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generations (necessary for effective garbage collection).
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- Nicer output (sorted, columnised).
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- More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder output is now
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shown always, unless `-Q` is given).
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- Nix expression language changes:
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- New language construct: `with
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E1;
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2020-07-23 12:28:05 +00:00
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E2` brings all attributes defined in the attribute set *E1* in
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scope in *E2*.
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2020-07-22 21:17:48 +00:00
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- Added a `map` function.
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- Various new operators (e.g., string concatenation).
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- Expression evaluation is much faster.
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- An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with syntax highlighting
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and indentation) has been added.
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- Many bug fixes.
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