[Gnu-arch-users] Xtla 1.1rc1

[Matthieu Moy]

The Xtla development team is proud to announce the release of Xtla,
version 1.1rc1. This is a test version that will hopefully become the
next stable release of Xtla in a few days. Please test it and send
your feedback.

Xtla is the Emacs front-end to GNU Arch client (either tla or bazaar
branch, at your option). It mainly provides user-friendly wrappers for
tla native commands.

The main features are:

  * PCL-CVS like interface for tla inventory and tla changes

  * Archive browser - navigate painlessly through archives, categories,
    branches, versions, etc.

  * Good integration in Emacs - almost everything can be done from
    within the editor

  * Bookmark manager - keep the most frequently used arch locations in
    your bookmark buffer

  * Integration with ediff, Emacs's graphical diff tool
      - to view changes made in a local tree.
      - to view and resolve conflicts after a merge.

  * Interface to view missing patches from all your partners with a
    single command

  * An Emacs mode for arch-related files (log files, =tagging-method,
    "build-config" files)

The main new features for the 1.1 release are:

  * Support for baz, and for baz added commands like "switch",
    "annotate", "status", "resolved".

  * Many performances improvements, like
    - Mode displaying revision lists are faster. Even faster if you
      use bazaar 1.5
    - Searching subtrees asynchronously in tla-changes
    - Computation of the merged-by field no longer O(n^2).
    - Process sentinel now use tla--capturing-lambda that allows a
      byte-compilation as opposed to `(lambda ...). This also
      eliminated the runtime dependency on 'cl.
    - marking/unmarking in inventory buffer are much faster

  * The list of files to be comitted displayed in the log buffer (but
    removed before comitting).

  * tla-update is now recursive.

  * Improved installation and configuration procedure. Default values
    for some variables can be provided as options to the ./configure
    script.

  * A mode for input file of GNU arch's build-config

  * Many minor bugfixes and useability improvements. See
    https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?group=xtla-el&plan_release_id%5B%5D=103
    for details.

  * Better Gnus support.

  * Support for sealing an fixing archives

Information about Xtla can be found here:

  http://wiki.gnuarch.org/xtla

We also have a project page on http://gna.org (savannah.gnu.org-like),
where you can find information about the mailing list, the online
manual, the download area, and the bug tracker (also used for feature
requests):

  https://gna.org/projects/xtla-el

You can install Xtla is from the archive found here:

  http://arch.xsteve.at/2005

The version is

  address@hidden/xtla--main--1.1

Xtla can also be downloaded as a tarball from here

  http://download.gna.org/xtla-el/

Or installed as a Debian package. The package is now in Debian
unstable (in version 1.0). You can also get it (in version 1.1rc1) by
adding

  deb http://download.gna.org/xtla-el/apt/ unstable/

to your sources.list file if you use another .deb-based distribution.

-- 
Matthieu