Nix Packages 0.8 (April 11, 2005) * This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed hashing scheme in Nix 0.8. * Notable updates: - Adobe Reader 7.0 - Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.) Nix Packages 0.7 (March 14, 2005) * 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. This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For instance, GCC is built only once instead of three times. (Contributed by Armijn Hemel.) * Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server that hosts Nixpkgs (catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl). This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or deleted files on various servers. * There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules. See the various Perl modules defined in pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix. * Notable new packages: - Qt 3 - MySQL - MythTV - Mono - MonoDevelop (alpha) - Xine * Notable updates: - GCC 3.4.3 - Glibc 2.3.4 - GTK 2.6