From 8f37bf620054f6a331464d1ac69d97c2288524e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:27:10 +0200 Subject: Update 'NEWS'. --- NEWS | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e7cb112bec..1e816d98f5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,94 @@ Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3) + +** Package management + +*** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options + +The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to +deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. + +*** New ‘guix-register’ program + +This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by +copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool. + +** Programming interfaces + +*** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages + +The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a +package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that +runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar. + +*** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter + +This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build +tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files. +This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies +to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image. + +*** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image + +The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’ +procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new +‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init +system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed +packages, and where Guix can be used. + +New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the +various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides +support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux +PAM configuration; and so on. + +*** objects supersede .drv file names in the API + +‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a + and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is +a object. The object embeds the corresponding .drv +file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details. + +** GNU distribution + +*** XXX new packages + +*** XXX package updates + +*** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient + +Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those +based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional +fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up. + +*** More GUI applications + +The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+ +applications have been added (see above.) + +*** Packaging guidelines + +The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual +under “GNU Distribution”. + +*** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2 + +Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support +it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules” +section of the manual for details. + +** Internationalization + +Updated translations: eo. + +** Bugs fixed + +*** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output +*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194) +*** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392) +*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives + * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2) -- cgit 1.4.1