GNU Stow 2.3.1 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 09, 2024,
updated Apr 09, 2024

• GNU Stow 2.3.1 released

  Hi all,
  
  
  GNU Stow 2.3.1 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 the ChangeLog for full details.
  
  
  * For improved ease of installation, dependencies on Hash::Merge and
   Clone::Choose introduced in 2.3.0 were removed again.
  
  
   Historically stow hasn't had runtime dependencies other than Perl
   itself, which is a useful property if you're managing the
   installation of Perl using stow.  This property has now been
   restored.
  
  
   Many thanks to Adam Sampson for this patch!
  
  
   <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2019-06/msg00001.html>
  
  
  * An issue with the test suite was fixed.
  
  
   t/cli.t was not testing with the right Perl executable, as reported
   here:
  
  
   <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129944>
  
  
   Thanks to Slaven Rezic for spotting this and reporting it!
  
  
  * Various maintainer tweaks
  
  
   The release process and its documentation were improved in various
   minor ways.
  
  
  Happy hacking,
  Adam
  
  
  

• GNU Stow 2.4.0 released

  Version 2.4.0 of the GNU Stow symbolic-link manager has been released. This marks the first release for GNU Stow since 2019.

• stow @ Savannah: GNU Stow 2.4.0 released

  Stow 2.4.0 has been released. This release contains some much-wanted bug-fixes — specifically, fixing the --dotfiles option to work with dot-foo directories, and avoiding a spurious warning when unstowing. There were also very many clean-ups and improvements, mostly internal and not visible to users. See http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/NEWS for more details.