Re: GNU Guix 0.9.0 released

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-05 12:11 +0300) wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.9.0,
> representing 1,528 commits by 34 people over 3.5 months.

Congrats on the release!

[...]
>   ** Package management
>
>   *** New ‘guix graph’ command, to draw package graphs
>   *** New ‘guix challenge’ command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries
>   *** ‘guix environment’ has a new ‘--container’ option
>   *** ‘guix substitute’ now honors all the specified substitute URLs
>   *** New ‘guix import cran’ command, to import R packages from CRAN
>   *** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly
>   *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--install-from-file’ option
>   *** ‘guix package --search’ shows package outputs
>   *** ‘guix refresh’ can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions
>   *** The ‘--ad-hoc’ option of ‘guix environment’ is now positional
>   *** The ‘--exec’ option of ‘guix environment’ is deprecated; use ‘--’ 
> instead
>   *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--file’ option
>   *** ‘guix build --log-file’ can now return URLs
>   *** ‘guix size’ now has a ‘--substitute-urls’ option and is much faster
>   *** New ‘guix lint’ checkers: ‘formatting’, ‘license’, ‘source-file-name’
>   *** Download progress report has been improved
>   *** Emacs shell-mode completions for ‘guix’ commands updated
>   *** Emacs: New ‘M-x guix’ popup interface

You seem to miss emacs modes for viewing build log files.  It's late for
the release of course, but I think it's worth mentioning in NEWS anyway
(for future reference).  WDYT?

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