From f6bf45af9c5f13be85b70085a508b55df8e35fc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Spiers Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:21:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS and THANKS according to recent commits --- NEWS | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THANKS | 1 + 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9178d23..cdb0f04 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -36,6 +36,42 @@ News file for Stow. ** Convert README and INSTALL to Markdown +** Update documentation to reflect more modern use cases + + The README.md, stow(8) man page, and info manual have been updated + to de-emphasise the package management use, since these days almost + everyone prefers to use modern package managers such as rpm / dpkg + / Nix for (system-wide) package management. + + To compensate, more popular modern use cases for Stow have been + added, such as management of dotfiles and software compiled in the + user's $HOME directory. + +** Stow now has a non-zero exit code if option parsing failed + + Thanks to Brice Waegeneire for reporting this. + +** chkstow now honours the $STOW_DIR environment variable + + The stow script already honoured the $STOW_DIR environment + variable. Now chkstow does too, for consistency. + +** Miscellaneous documentation fixes + + - Various typos were fixed. + + - The documentation for --verbose was updated to indicate that + verbosity levels now go up to 5. + + - Erroneous glob examples in the --ignore documentation were fixed. + + - The abbreviation "regex" was removed from the info manual for + consistency. + + - INSTALL.md now also documents how to build directly from git. + +** aclocal.m4 was updated using aclocal 1.15.1. + ** Add Docker files for convenient testing across multiple Perl versions This is the first release which has been tested across 5 different diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 9a9072a..b038a32 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Hongyi Zhao Jean Louis Daniel Shahaf Matan Nassau +Brice Waegeneire Email addresses of new contributors are no longer being added by default for privacy reasons; however please contact the maintainer if you are