[Nix-dev] Nix 1.2 released

2012-12-07 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the Nix package manager. Release 1.2 can be found at http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.2 This release has the following improvements and changes: * Nix has a new binary substituter mechanism: the binary cache.

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix 1.2 released

2012-12-07 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Nice, just 2 days late for a sinterklaas-present :P On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.comwrote: Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the Nix package manager. Release 1.2 can be found at

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix 1.2 released

2012-12-07 Thread Marc Weber
Thank you all for those improvements * Nix has a new binary substituter mechanism: the binary cache. A binary cache contains pre-built binaries of Nix packages. Whenever Nix wants to build a missing Nix store path, it will check a set of binary caches to see if any of them has

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix 1.2 released

2012-12-07 Thread Shea Levy
On 12/07/2012 10:24 AM, Marc Weber wrote: Thank you all for those improvements * Nix has a new binary substituter mechanism: the binary cache. A binary cache contains pre-built binaries of Nix packages. Whenever Nix wants to build a missing Nix store path, it will check a set of

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix 1.2 released

2012-12-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Congrats on the release. :-) Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com skribis: * Store optimisation (replacing identical files in the store with hard links) can now be done automatically every time a path is added to the store. This is enabled by setting the configuration