New version of Xtla, gnuarch frontend running on GNU Emacs, is released.
Masatake YAMATO
Subject: [Xtla-el-dev] Xtla 1.1 officially released
From: Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: xtla-el-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gnu-arch-users <gnu-arch-users@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:34:51 +0200
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)
The Xtla development team is proud to announce the release of Xtla,
version 1.1 (following two release candidates).
Xtla is the Emacs front-end to GNU Arch client (either tla or bazaar
branch, at your option). It mainly provides user-friendly wrappers for
tla and baz native commands.
The main features are:
* PCL-CVS like interface for tla inventory and tla changes
* Archive browser - navigate painlessly through archives, categories,
branches, versions, etc.
* Good integration in Emacs - almost everything can be done from
within the editor
* Bookmark manager - keep the most frequently used arch locations in
your bookmark buffer
* Integration with ediff, Emacs's graphical diff tool
- to view changes made in a local tree.
- to view and resolve conflicts after a merge.
* Interface to view missing patches from all your partners with a
single command
* An Emacs mode for arch-related files (log files, =tagging-method,
"build-config" files)
The main new features for the 1.1 release are:
* Support for baz, and for baz added commands like "switch",
"annotate", "status", "resolved".
* Many performances improvements, like
- Mode displaying revision lists are faster. Even faster if you
use bazaar 1.5
- Searching subtrees asynchronously in tla-changes
- Computation of the merged-by field no longer O(n^2).
- Process sentinel now use tla--capturing-lambda that allows a
byte-compilation as opposed to `(lambda ...). This also
eliminated the runtime dependency on 'cl.
- marking/unmarking in inventory buffer are much faster
* The list of files to be committed displayed in the log buffer (but
removed before committing).
* tla-update is now recursive.
* Improved installation and configuration procedure. Default values
for some variables can be provided as options to the ./configure
script.
* A mode for input file of GNU arch's build-config
* Many minor bugfixes and usability improvements. See
https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?group=xtla-el&plan_release_id%5B%5D=103
for details.
* Better Gnus support.
* Support for sealing an fixing archives
Information about Xtla can be found here:
http://wiki.gnuarch.org/xtla
We also have a project page on http://gna.org (savannah.gnu.org-like),
where you can find information about the mailing list, the online
manual, the download area, and the bug tracker (also used for feature
requests):
https://gna.org/projects/xtla-el
You can install Xtla is from the archive found here:
http://arch.xsteve.at/2005
The version is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/xtla--main--1.1
Xtla can also be downloaded as a tarball from here
http://download.gna.org/xtla-el/
Or installed as a Debian package. The package is now in Debian
unstable (1.0 is available, 1.1 should come soon). You can also get it
by adding
deb http://download.gna.org/xtla-el/apt/ unstable/
to your sources.list file if you use another .deb-based distribution.
Many thanks to all contributors and testers, in particular
Stefan Reichör, Original author of Xtla and integrator for the 1.1
branch
Masatake Yamato, GNU Emacs hacker
Robert Widhopf-Fenk, XEmacs integration and testing
Milan Zamazal, Debian developer
Mark Triggs
Miles Bader, for a few precious advices in Emacs Lisp.
For the curious, a 1.2 branch has been opened. There are no plans of
great changes, but a few minor improvements can be expected in the
mid-term. See
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/xtla--devo--1.2
Located at: http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/arch/public
--
Matthieu
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