niv/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[0.2.14] 2020-07-15

Added

• niv add local for local sources.
• Custom nixpkgs can be specified during init.

Changed

• The derivation name for package foo is now foo-src.
• The extension .tgz is considered as .tar.gz.
• The default nixpkgs is release-20.03.
• Nixpkgs is now pulled from NixOS/nixpkgs, not from channels.

Removed

• The types builtin-tarbal and builtin-url were removed.

[0.2.13] 2020-02-02

Added

• niv modify -n NAME to rename a package

Changed

• README mentions the modify command
• niv is not shipped with the niv-test executable anymore
• cabal-upload was simplified

[0.2.12] 2020-01-17

Added

• Examples for building C++ libraries with niv
• Documentation for using niv from nixpkgs

Changed

• Only depend on executables in default.nix (-A niv) for smaller closure size
• Ensure <nixpkgs> is not evaluated in sources.nix unless necessary

[0.2.11] 2020-01-07

Changed

• Users can set custom pkgs when importing sources.nix

[0.2.10] 2020-01-06

Changed

• The bundled nix/sources.nix is formatted with nixpkgs-fmt

[0.2.9] 2019-12-17

Changed

• niv init uses nixpkgs 19.09

[0.2.8] 2019-12-09

Changed

• Fixed message in niv init with custom sources.json

[0.2.7] 2019-12-08

Added

• Support for custom path sources.json with --sources-json

[0.2.6] 2019-12-05

Changed

• Fix niv update with git specs

[0.2.5] 2019-12-01

Changed

• Fix niv show adding extra newlines

[0.2.4] 2019-12-01

Added

• Experimental support for add subcommands, in particular niv add git

Changed

• Various error message fixes

[0.2.3] 2019-11-28

Added

• A new CLI option (-s) reads attributes as raw strings.

Changed

• The attribute CLI option (-a) now allows JSON value.
• Some typos were fixed.
• A deprecation warning was added for builtin-tarball.

[0.2.2] 2019-11-27

Added

• The sources.nix are now versioned.
• Show the help when no arguments are provided.

Changed

• The show command was prettified.