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gmane has been dead for quite a while:
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gmane-org/
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News file for Stow.
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* Changes in version 2.3.1
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*** Remove dependencies on Hash::Merge and Clone::Choose
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stow 2.3.0 added external runtime dependencies on Hash::Merge and
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Clone::Choose. Historically stow hasn't had runtime dependencies
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other than Perl itself, which is a useful property if you're
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managing the installation of Perl using stow; the bootstrapping
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instructions in stow's manual would need updating to describe how
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to install these two modules (and any dependencies they have now
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or in the future) as well.
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However, Hash::Merge is much more general than stow actually
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needs, so replace the merge() call with a few lines of equivalent
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code -- this avoids the external dependencies, and is clearer than
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the merge() call.
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Many thanks to Adam Sampson for this patch!
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2019-06/msg00001.html
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*** Fix an issue with the test suite
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t/cli.t was not testing with the right Perl executable, as
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reported here:
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https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129944
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Thanks to Slaven Rezic for spotting this and reporting it!
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*** Various maintainer tweaks
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Improved the release process and its documentation in various
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minor ways.
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* Changes in version 2.3.0
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*** New features / changes in behaviour
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***** New --dotfiles option
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Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
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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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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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Thanks to Joris Vankerschaver for this feature!
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***** Shell-like expansion in .stowrc files
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For options within .stowrc files which describe file paths, "~" can
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be included to expand to the current value of $HOME, and
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environment variables can be referenced e.g. via "$FOO" or
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"${FOO}". To prevent expansion, escape with a backslash.
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Thanks a lot to Charles LeDoux for his diligent work on this
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feature!
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***** chkstow now honours the $STOW_DIR environment variable
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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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***** Stow now has a non-zero exit code if option parsing failed
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Thanks to Brice Waegeneire for reporting this.
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*** License upgraded from GPL version 2 to version 3
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Copyright and license notices were also added to the headers of
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various files in accordance with GNU guidelines.
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*** Documentation fixes and enhancements
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***** Remove dependency on unmaintained texi2html
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The dependency on the ancient and unmaintained texi2html for
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building the single-page HTML version of the manual has been
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removed, since it was difficult to get running on most distros
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other than openSUSE.
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Instead use the more modern "makeinfo --html --no-split" approach.
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Rules have been kept for posterity in the Makefile for the old
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approach and also an "in-between" approach based on texi2any;
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however these are not triggered by default. Run
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make manual-single-html-all
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to compare the three versions.
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***** Fixed naming of man page
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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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IO::FILE=IO(0XA719C0)(1)
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Thanks to @Corin-EU on GitHub highlighting this and proposing a
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fix.
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***** Convert README and INSTALL to Markdown
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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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***** Update documentation to reflect more modern use cases
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The README.md, stow(8) man page, and info manual have been updated
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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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added, such as management of dotfiles and software compiled in the
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user's $HOME directory.
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***** Miscellaneous documentation fixes
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- Various typos 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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- Erroneous glob examples in the --ignore documentation were fixed.
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- The abbreviation "regex" was removed from the info manual for
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consistency.
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- INSTALL.md now also documents how to build directly from git.
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*** Fixes for bugs, tests, and other technical debt
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***** Add Docker files for convenient testing across multiple Perl versions
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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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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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Thanks to Charles LeDoux for this!
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***** Set up continuous testing via Travis CI
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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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***** Add Coveralls integration with GitHub
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This means that test coverage analysis will be automatically be run
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on any pull requests submitted to GitHub.
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***** Miscellaneous improvements to the test suite
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These include proper testing of the distinct impact of ~/.stowrc
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and .stowrc in the directory from which Stow is invoked.
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***** Fix for test suite on Cygwin
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Thanks to Lucas Theisen for this fix!
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***** aclocal.m4 was updated using aclocal 1.15.1.
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***** Miscellaneous fixes to the build and distribution process
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***** Improve handling of directories with unusual names
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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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*** @VERSION@ substitution was set up for the Stow::Util module.
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* Changes in version 2.2.1
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Version 2.2.1 was not released since it was rejected by pause.perl.org
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due to Stow::Util missing $VERSION.
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*** Small improvements to documentation
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***** The README has been revamped.
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***** Some index points have been added to the manual.
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***** Some typos were fixed.
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***** @VERSION@ substitution was fixed in the stow(8) man page.
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*** Fix Perl warnings
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Stow no longer emits "v-string in use/require non-portable" and
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"Possible precedence issue with control flow operator" warnings
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with newer Perl versions. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36478
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and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2014-06/msg00000.html
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for full details.
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*** Fix "Undefined subroutine &main::error" error
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See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75349 for details.
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*** Failed system calls now include error description
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This should make errors easier to understand.
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*** Default ignore list now ignores top-level README.*, LICENSE.*, and COPYING
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These files are by definition specific to a given package, so if
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they exist in the top-level directory, they should not be stowed.
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*** Correctly handle the stow/target directories as non-canonical paths
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Fix the case discovered by Hiroyuki Iwatsuki where stowing fails if
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the stow / target directories are non-canonical paths. For
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example, on FreeBSD /home is a symlink pointing to 'usr/home', so
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running with the stow directory as /home/user/local/stow and the
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target directory as /home/user/local previously resulted in the
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stow directory path being calculated as
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../../../usr/home/user/local/stow relative to the target.
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See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2013-04/msg00000.html for details.
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*** Fix stowing of relative links when --no-folding is used.
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With a tree like this:
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.
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|-- stow
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| `-- pkg
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| `-- lib
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| |-- itk-current -> itk4.0.0
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| `-- itk4.0.0
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| `-- libitk4.0.0.so
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`-- target
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`-- lib
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|-- itk4.0.0 -> ../../stow/pkg/lib/itk4.0.0
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`-- libfoo-1.2.3.so
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stowing pkg with the --no-folding option resulted in itk-current
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being "unpacked":
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.
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`-- target
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`-- lib
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|-- itk-current
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| `-- libitk4.0.0.so -> ../../../stow/pkg/lib/itk-current/libitk4.0.0.so
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|-- itk4.0.0
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| `-- libitk4.0.0.so -> ../../../stow/pkg/lib/itk4.0.0/libitk4.0.0.so
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`-- libfoo-1.2.3.so
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This commit fixes it so that it gets stowed as a symlink:
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`-- target
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`-- lib
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...
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|-- itk-current -> ../../stow/pkg/lib/itk-current
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...
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Thanks to Gabriele Balducci for reporting this problem:
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-stow/2014-09/msg00000.html
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*** Internal code cleanups
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***** aclocal was updated.
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***** automake files were removed.
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***** Trailing whitespace was removed.
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***** Comments were added.
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***** Debug messages were improved.
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* Changes in version 2.2.0
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*** New --no-folding option
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Disables folding of newly stowed directories when stowing, and
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refolding of newly foldable directories when unstowing.
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*** Remove -a option (--adopt still available)
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As --adopt is the only option which allows stow to modify files, it
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is considered potentially dangerous (especially for stow package
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directories which are not managed by a version control system).
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Therefore it seems prudent to require a bit more effort from the
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user to enable this option, minimising the change of enabling it
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via a typo.
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*** Improve error message when stow package is not found.
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The error message displayed a path to the missing stow package
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which was relative to the target directory rather than the cwd,
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which was confusing for the user.
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*** Test suite improvements
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The test suite has been tightened up slightly.
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*** Documentation improvements
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Various fixes and cosmetic improvements have been made in the manual.
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*** Remove "There are no outstanding operations to perform" warning.
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* Changes in version 2.1.3
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*** New --adopt / -a option
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This allows plain files in the target to be "adopted" into the
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package being stowed. See the manual has more details.
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*** ./configure now checks for Perl modules required by the test suite.
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* Changes in version 2.1.2
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Many thanks to Stefano Lattarini for help with numerous autoconf and
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automake issues which are addressed in this release.
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*** Significantly improve the handling of --with-pmdir.
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***** Calculation of the default value for --with-pmdir is now done safely in Perl.
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Previously non-POSIX-compliant shells could cause issues.
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***** The output of ./configure and make are now much more helpful.
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***** The Makefile will now check whether pmdir is in Perl's built-in @INC.
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If not, it will insert a
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use lib "...";
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line into the generated stow script to ensure that it can always
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locate the Perl modules without needing to manually set PERL5LIB.
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***** Updated INSTALL and HOWTO-RELEASE accordingly.
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*** ./configure now aborts if Perl isn't found.
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*** Ensured the ChangeLog is up-to-date when making a new distribution.
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*** Fixed bug with `make clean' removing files which the user may not be able to rebuild.
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* Changes in version 2.1.1
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*** Fixed bug where ./configure --with-pmdir=X was ineffectual.
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*** Calculated the correct default value for pmdir based on the local Perl installation.
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*** Fixed some automake issues (thanks to Stefano Lattarini for spotting these!)
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*** Improved various bits of documentation.
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* Changes in version 2.1.0
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*** Major refactoring of code into separate Stow and Stow::Util Perl modules.
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*** Added support for ignore list files.
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*** Added support for CPAN-style installation and distribution via Module::Build.
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*** Introduced `make test' target and significantly tightened up test suite.
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*** Very large number of code and documentation fixes (over 80 commits since version 2.0.1).
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*** The '--conflicts' option has been removed.
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Stow will always show conflicts if they are found during the scanning
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phase.
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*** Improved debugging output.
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*** Converted man page to POD format.
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*** Include PDF, and both split- and single-page HTML versions of manual in the distribution.
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*** Fixed code style consistency issues.
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*** Running configure from outside the source tree now works.
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*** `make distcheck' now works.
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* Changes in version 2.0.1
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*** Defer operations until all potential conflicts have been assessed.
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We do this by traversing the installation image(s) and recording the
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actions that need to be performed. Redundant actions are factored out,
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e.g., we don't want to create a link that we will later remove in order to
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create a directory. Benefits of this approach:
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1. Get to see _all_ the conflicts that are blocking an installation:
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you don't have to deal with them one at a time.
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2. No operations are be performed if _any_ conflicts are detected:
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a failed stow will not leave you with a partially installed
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package.
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3. Minimises the set of operations that need to be performed.
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4. Operations are executed as a batch which is much faster
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This can be an advantage when upgrading packages on a live system
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where you want to minimise the amount of time when the package is
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unavailable.
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*** The above fixes the false conflict problem mentioned in the info file.
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*** It also fixes the two bugs mentioned in the man page.
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*** Multiple stow directories will now cooperate in folding/unfolding.
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*** Conflict messages are more uniform and informative.
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*** Verbosity and tracing is more extensive and uniform.
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*** Implemented option parsing via Getopt::Long.
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*** Default command line arguments set via '.stowrc' and '~/.stowrc' files.
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Contents of these files are parsed as though they occurred first on
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the command line.
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*** Support multiple actions per invocation.
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In order for this to work, we had to add a new (optional) command line arg
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(-S) to specify packages to stow. For example, to update an installation
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of emacs you can now do
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stow -D emacs-21.3 -S emacs-21.4a
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which will replace emacs-21.3 with emacs-21.4a.
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You can mix and match any number of actions, e.g.,
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stow -S p1 p2 -D p3 p4 -S p5 -R p6
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will unstow p3, p4 and p6, then stow p1, p2, p5 and p6.
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*** New (repeatable) command line arg: --ignore='<regex>'
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This suppresses operating on a file matching the regex (suffix),
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e.g.
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--ignore='~' --ignore='\.#.*'
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will ignore emacs and CVS backup files (suitable for ~/.stowrc file).
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(I opted for Perl regular expressions because they are more
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powerful and easier to implement).
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*** New (repeatable) command line arg: --defer='<regex>'
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This defers stowing a file matching the regex (prefix) if that file
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is already stowed to a different package, e.g.,
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--defer='man' --defer='info'
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will cause stow to skip over pre-existing man and info pages.
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Equivalently, you could use --defer='man|info' since the argument
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is just a Perl regex.
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*** New (repeatable) command line arg: --override='<regex>'
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This forces a file matching the regex (prefix) to be stowed even if
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the file is already stowed to a different package, e.g.
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--override='man' --override='info'
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will unstow any pre-existing man and info pages that would conflict
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with the file we are trying to stow.
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Equivalently, you could use --override='man|info' since the
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argument is just a Perl regex.
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*** The above gives the ability to manage packages with common content.
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For example, man pages that are shared by a number of CPAN
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packages. Using multiple stow directories and .stowrc files can
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also simplify things. In our setup we use the standard
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/usr/local/stow directory for packages to be installed in
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/usr/local. Since we install a large number of extra Perl packages
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(currently about 300) we use an additional stow directory:
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/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8-extras. Both stow directories contain a
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'.stow' file so that they collaborate appropriately. I then use
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the following .stowrc file in /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8-extras
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--dir=/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8-extras
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--target=/usr/local
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--override=bin
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--override=man
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--ignore='perllocal\.pod'
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--ignore='\.packlist'
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--ignore='\.bs'
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When I stow packages from there, they automatically override any
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man pages and binaries that may already have been stowed by another
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package or by the core perl-5.8.8 installation. For example, if
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you want to upgrade the Test-Simple package, you need to override
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all the man pages that would have been installed by the core
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package. If you are upgrading CPAN, you will also have to override
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the pre-existing cpan executable.
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*** By default, search less aggressively for invalid symlinks when unstowing.
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That is, we only search for bad symlinks in the directories
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explicitly mentioned in the installation image, and do not dig down
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into other subdirs. Digging down into other directories can be
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very time consuming if you have a really big tree (like with a
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couple of Oracle installations lying around). In general the old
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behaviour is only necessary when you have really stuffed up your
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installation by deleting a directory that has already been stowed.
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Doing that on a live system is somewhat crazy and hopefully rare.
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We provide an option '-p|--compat' to enable the old behaviour for
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those needing to patch up mistakes.
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*** New chkstow utility for checking the integrity of the target directory.
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*** Implement a test suite and support code.
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This was built before implementing any of the extra features so I
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could more easily check for equivalent functionality. The initial
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code base had to be refactored substantially to allow for testing.
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The test suite is not exhaustive, but it should provide enough to
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check for regressions.
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* Changes in version 1.3.3
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*** Now requires Perl 5.005 or later
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*** Initially empty directories are not removed anymore
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*** Removed buggy fastcwd (we use POSIX::getcwd instead)
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*** Fixed bug when the common Parent of Target dir and Stow dir was "/"
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*** Fixed bug when handling directories named "0"
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*** Stow now only warns the user if a directory is unreadable during unstowing.
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* Changes in version 1.3:
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*** Added --restow option.
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*** Fixed handling of slashes in package names.
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*** Expanded configure-time search for Perl binary.
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* Changes in version 1.2:
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*** Dependency on `pwd' removed.
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*** Perl 4 compatibility fixes.
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*** Manual expanded even more.
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* Changes in version 1.1:
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*** Long and short options now accepted.
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*** Manual expanded.
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*** `make clean' removes stow (which is generated from stow.in).
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* Initial public release (v1.0) of Stow.
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* emacs local variables
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Local Variables:
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mode: org
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org-export-with-toc: nil
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org-export-with-author: nil
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org-toc-odd-levels-only: t
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