GNU Stow 2.4.1 released

Adam Spiers <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Sep 2024 23:18:44 +0100
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Hi all,

GNU Stow 2.4.1 is now available for download from 

     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/

and also from the mirrors[1] as soon as they catch up. 

Stow is a symlink farm manager program which takes distinct sets 
of software and/or data located in separate directories on the 
filesystem, and makes them all appear to be installed in a single 
directory tree. 

While Stow has often been used to manage system-wide software 
installations, it also provides a clean mechanism for managing 
software and configuration files in users' home directories: 

     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html

More information is available at the homepage: 

     http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

[1] You can see a list of mirrors at http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
     or use http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/stow/ which will automatically
     redirect to a nearby mirror.

Here is a summary of the changes since the previous release; 
please see NEWS and the git history for full details:

    https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/NEWS
    https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/log/

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1. Fix precedence warning with Perl 5.40
========================================

  Perl 5.40.0 extended the scope of the "Possible precedence issue with
  control flow operator" warnings to include ternary operators, which
  reintroduced this warning when running Stow on Perl >= 5.40.0.  This
  has now been fixed.


2. `--dotfiles' option now works correctly with ignore lists
============================================================

  If the `--dotfiles' option was enabled, files in the package such as
  `dot-gitignore' would be translated to `.gitignore' prior to stowing,
  and consequently ignored by the default ignore list.  However any file
  named `dot-*' in a package is obviously intended to be stowed as a dot
  file, so should not be ignored.

  To fix this, Stow now ignores based on the name in the package, not
  the potentially translated name used for stowing, and similarly for
  unstowing.


3. Use shell-like parsing for `.stowrc' arguments
=================================================

  If a file path or regex in `.stowrc' has a space, the option
  previously broke because it would have been treated as two options
  instead of one.  Now it's possible to include options using shell-like
  quoting, e.g.:

  --target="$HOME/dir with space in/file with space in" ignore=\\$FOO\\$


4. Make dependency on LaTeX optional
====================================

  Previously, the installation instructions always built a PDF version
  of the manual, which required having LaTeX installed.  However LaTeX
  is a large program which can be awkward to install, so this has now
  been made optional, and by default the PDF manual is not part of the
  build.  It can still be built via `make pdf', and this is documented.


5. Fix Docker builds.
=====================

  Fix the return error 100 that was happening when trying to run the
  build script with docker.


6. Various maintainer tweaks
============================

  Further improved the release process and its documentation in various
  minor ways.  Perl 5.40 has been added to the test matrix.
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Happy hacking,
Adam
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