Xtla 1.1 officially release

[Masatake YAMATO]

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 <address@hidden>
To: xtla-el-dev <address@hidden>, gnu-arch-users <address@hidden>
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

  address@hidden/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

  address@hidden/xtla--devo--1.2
  
  Located at: http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/arch/public

-- 
Matthieu