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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_278__release_day.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_278__release_day.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..22d637c89 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_278__release_day.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +I hope that today's git-annex release will be landing in Debian unstable +toward the end of the month. And I'm looking forward to some changes that +have been blocked by wanting to keep git-annex buildable on Debian 7. + +Yesterday I got rid of the [SHA](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SHA/) +dependency, switching git-annex to use a newer version of cryptohash for +HMAC generation (which its author Vincent Hanquez kindly added to it when I +requested it, waay back in 2013). I'm considering using the LambdaCase +extension to clean up a lot of the code next, and there are 500+ lines of +old yesod compatability code I can eventually remove. + +These changes and others will prevent backporting to the soon to be Debian +oldstable, but the standalone tarball will still work there. And, the +git-annex-standalone.deb that can be installed on any version of Debian is +[now available from the NeuroDebian repository](http://neuro.debian.net/install_pkg.html?p=git-annex-standalone), +and its build support has been merged into the source tree. + +In the run up to the release today, I also dealt with getting the +Windows build tested and working, now that it's been updated to newer +versions of rsync, ssh, etc from Cygwin. Had to add several more dlls to +the installer. That testing also turned up a case where `git-annex init` +could fail, which got a last-minute fix. + +PS, scroll down [this 10 year of git timeline](https://www.atlassian.com/git/articles/10-years-of-git/) +and see what you find! |