[bug-sourceinstall] GNU Source Installer version 0.5 released

[Claudio Fontana]

I am happy to announce the release of GNU Source Installer version 0.5 .

With this release, sourceinstall moves towards the goal of being a complete
source package installer and management tool.

The main improvements from the 0.4 version include a new completely
scriptable command line interface. See the manual for a detailed explanation
of the invocation syntax, with all actions, options and preferences.

This version also supports more packages by detecting the old INSTALL_ROOT
makefile feature as an alias to the autoconf-generated DESTDIR.

It adds a new 'Clean' phase to the process (which occurs when reconfiguring a
package for (re)installation). This way configure options are always reflected
in the actual installation.

This version also adds package information export functionalities:
information can be exported to XML, plaintext and plaintext file list.

DTD for the XML is reachable at
http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/package_set.dtd

The GUI has also been improved, where some missing accelerators have been
finally implemented, the popup menu for the package list has been made
sticky, the add dialog has been improved and more.

There is also a very experimental, slow, and maybe pointless binary tarball
export function. The exported binaries are simply tarballs containing the
relevant files with their owners and permissions.

The release also includes a lot of bug fixes.

For downloads, documentation, information, and basically everything, look at
the project home page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/sourceinstall.html

Thanks to all people that submitted bug reports.
However, please send or CC: your reports to address@hidden, so
more people can get help out of your report, and I can avoid working in
parallel for people showing the same problem.

For detailed instructions on how to properly report bugs, please read the
sourceinstall manual.



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