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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.6">
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<title>Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel
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(option <option>-j</option>).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell
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script to forward builds to Nix installations on remote
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machines, which may or may not be of the same platform
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type.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Option <option>--fallback</option> allows
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recovery from broken substitutes.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Option <option>--keep-going</option> causes
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building of other (unaffected) derivations to continue if one
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failed.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it
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should actually work now).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be
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shared among multiple users.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Substitute registration is much faster
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now.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>A utility <command>nix-build</command> to build a
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Nix expression and create a symlink to the result int the current
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directory; useful for testing Nix derivations.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Manual updates.</para></listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix-env</command> changes:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Derivations for other platforms are filtered out
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(which can be overridden using
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<option>--system-filter</option>).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><option>--install</option> by default now
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uninstall previous derivations with the same
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name.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><option>--upgrade</option> allows upgrading to a
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specific version.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>New operation
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<option>--delete-generations</option> to remove profile
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generations (necessary for effective garbage
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collection).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Nicer output (sorted,
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columnised).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder
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output is now shown always, unless <option>-Q</option> is
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given).</para></listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Nix expression language changes:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>New language construct: <literal>with
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<replaceable>E1</replaceable>;
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<replaceable>E2</replaceable></literal> brings all attributes
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defined in the attribute set <replaceable>E1</replaceable> in
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scope in <replaceable>E2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Added a <function>map</function>
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function.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Various new operators (e.g., string
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concatenation).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Expression evaluation is much
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faster.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with
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syntax highlighting and indentation) has been
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added.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Many bug fixes.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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