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Nix Packages 0.7
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* The bootstrap process for the standard build environment on Linux
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(stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no longer dependent in its
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initial bootstrap stages on the system Glibc, GCC, and other tools.
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Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically linked bash and curl, and uses
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that to download other statically linked tools. These are then used
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to build a Glibc and dynamically linked versions of all other
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tools.
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This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For instance,
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GCC is built only once instead of three times.
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(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)
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* Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server that
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hosts Nixpkgs (catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl). This reduces the risk of
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packages being unbuildable due to moved or deleted files on various
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servers.
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* There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules. See the
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various Perl modules defined in pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.
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* Notable new packages:
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- Qt 3
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- MySQL
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- MythTV
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- Mono
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- MonoDevelop (alpha)
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- Xine
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* Notable updates:
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- GCC 3.4.3
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- Glibc 2.3.4
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- GTK 2.6
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