Group news items for 2.3.0
Since 2.3.0 is a long overdue release and has many changes, document them in NEWS in three groups: - New features / changes in behaviour - Documentation fixes and enhancements - Fixes for bugs and technical debt
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* Changes in version 2.3.0
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* Changes in version 2.3.0
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** New --dotfiles option
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** New features / changes in behaviour
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Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
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*** New --dotfiles option
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begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
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enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
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whose name begins with "dot-", and replace the "dot-" prefix in the
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name by a period ("."). This is useful when Stow is used to manage
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collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full
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of hidden files.
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For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
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Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
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stow/dot-bashrc and stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el. With this option,
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begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
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Stow will create symlinks from .bashrc to stow/dot-bashrc and from
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enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
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.emacs.d/init.el to stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el. Any other files,
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whose name begins with "dot-", and replace the "dot-" prefix in the
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whose name does not begin with "dot-", will be processed as usual.
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name by a period ("."). This is useful when Stow is used to manage
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collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full
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of hidden files.
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Thanks to Joris Vankerschaver for this feature!
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For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
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stow/dot-bashrc and stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el. With this option,
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Stow will create symlinks from .bashrc to stow/dot-bashrc and from
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.emacs.d/init.el to stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el. Any other files,
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whose name does not begin with "dot-", will be processed as usual.
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** Fixed naming of man page
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Thanks to Joris Vankerschaver for this feature!
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The title of the generated man page was previously ending up as
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*** chkstow now honours the $STOW_DIR environment variable
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something like:
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IO::FILE=IO(0XA719C0)(1)
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The stow script already honoured the $STOW_DIR environment
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variable. Now chkstow does too, for consistency.
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Thanks to @Corin-EU on GitHub highlighting this and proposing a
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*** Stow now has a non-zero exit code if option parsing failed
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fix.
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** Fix for test suite on Cygwin
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Thanks to Brice Waegeneire for reporting this.
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Thanks to Lucas Theisen for this fix!
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** Documentation fixes and enhancements
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** Convert README and INSTALL to Markdown
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*** Fixed naming of man page
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** Update documentation to reflect more modern use cases
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The title of the generated man page was previously ending up as
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something like:
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The README.md, stow(8) man page, and info manual have been updated
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IO::FILE=IO(0XA719C0)(1)
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to de-emphasise the package management use, since these days almost
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everyone prefers to use modern package managers such as rpm / dpkg
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/ Nix for (system-wide) package management.
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To compensate, more popular modern use cases for Stow have been
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Thanks to @Corin-EU on GitHub highlighting this and proposing a
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added, such as management of dotfiles and software compiled in the
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fix.
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user's $HOME directory.
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** Stow now has a non-zero exit code if option parsing failed
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*** Convert README and INSTALL to Markdown
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Thanks to Brice Waegeneire for reporting this.
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They are now named README.md and INSTALL.md, and render nicely
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when viewed via git hosting services which support Markdown.
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** chkstow now honours the $STOW_DIR environment variable
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*** Update documentation to reflect more modern use cases
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The stow script already honoured the $STOW_DIR environment
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The README.md, stow(8) man page, and info manual have been updated
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variable. Now chkstow does too, for consistency.
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to de-emphasise the package management use, since these days almost
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everyone prefers to use modern package managers such as rpm / dpkg
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/ Nix for (system-wide) package management.
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** Miscellaneous documentation fixes
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To compensate, more popular modern use cases for Stow have been
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added, such as management of dotfiles and software compiled in the
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user's $HOME directory.
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- Various typos were fixed.
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*** Miscellaneous documentation fixes
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- The documentation for --verbose was updated to indicate that
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- Various typos were fixed.
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verbosity levels now go up to 5.
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- Erroneous glob examples in the --ignore documentation were fixed.
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- The documentation for --verbose was updated to indicate that
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verbosity levels now go up to 5.
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- The abbreviation "regex" was removed from the info manual for
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- Erroneous glob examples in the --ignore documentation were fixed.
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consistency.
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- INSTALL.md now also documents how to build directly from git.
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- The abbreviation "regex" was removed from the info manual for
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consistency.
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** aclocal.m4 was updated using aclocal 1.15.1.
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- INSTALL.md now also documents how to build directly from git.
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** Fixes for bugs and technical debt
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*** Fix for test suite on Cygwin
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** Add Docker files for convenient testing across multiple Perl versions
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Thanks to Lucas Theisen for this fix!
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This is the first release which has been tested across 5 different
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*** aclocal.m4 was updated using aclocal 1.15.1.
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versions of Perl prior to release! The versions are:
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perl-5.22.2
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*** Add Docker files for convenient testing across multiple Perl versions
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perl-5.20.3
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perl-5.18.4
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perl-5.16.3
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perl-5.14.4
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Thanks to Charles LeDoux for this!
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This is the first release which has been tested across 5 different
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versions of Perl prior to release! The versions are:
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** Add Coveralls integration with GitHub
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perl-5.22.2
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perl-5.20.3
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perl-5.18.4
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perl-5.16.3
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perl-5.14.4
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This means that test coverage analysis will be automatically be run
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Thanks to Charles LeDoux for this!
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on any pull requests submitted to GitHub.
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** Set up continuous testing via Travis CI
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*** Add Coveralls integration with GitHub
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This means that the test suite will be automatically run on any
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This means that test coverage analysis will be automatically be run
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pull requests submitted to GitHub, as well as "make distcheck"
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on any pull requests submitted to GitHub.
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and "./Build distcheck".
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** Miscellaneous fixes to the build and distribution process
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*** Set up continuous testing via Travis CI
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** Improve handling of directories with unusual names
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This means that the test suite will be automatically run on any
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pull requests submitted to GitHub, as well as "make distcheck"
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and "./Build distcheck".
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Various fixes for corner cases where directories are named "0"
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*** Miscellaneous fixes to the build and distribution process
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or begin with a space character, or where STOW_DIR is empty.
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Thanks to Cuong Manh Le for highlighting some of the issues and
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*** Improve handling of directories with unusual names
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proposing fixes!
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Various fixes for corner cases where directories are named "0"
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or begin with a space character, or where STOW_DIR is empty.
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Thanks to Cuong Manh Le for highlighting some of the issues and
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proposing fixes!
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* Changes in version 2.2.2
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* Changes in version 2.2.2
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