Changelog

All notable changes to the install-mimic project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

0.4.3 - 2025-10-23

Semi-incompatible changes

• Rust implementation:
  • use camino for UTF-8 path handling

Fixes

• Documentation:
  • actually run the docs environment when run via tox-stages

Additions

• Documentation:
  • add configuration for the publync tool for publishing to the Ringlet website
• Rust implementation:
  • add a unit test that runs the TAP test suite

Other changes

• Build framework:
  • use single quotes for the $CARGO variable expansion
  • drop the dist target
• Documentation:
  • use reuse 6.x with no changes
  • bump the lower version requirements for the dependencies to avoid a segfault with Python 3.14
• Rust implementation:
  • drop the Debug trait from various structs
  • switch from anyhow to eyre for error reporting
  • bump the lower version requirements for the dependencies to the versions available in the Debian stable distribution
  • use //-style comments for the SPDX tags

0.4.2 - 2025-03-15

Fixes

• Perl implementation:
  • various fixes suggested by perlcritic
• Documentation:
  • fix the 0.4.1 link on the downloads page

Other changes

• Documentation:
  • use reuse 5.x, switch to REUSE.toml
  • drop the dependency on mkdocstrings, we do not use it
  • use uvoxen to configure and run tests
• Perl implementation:
  • reformat the source code using perltidy
  • various fixes suggested by perlcritic
  • run perltidy and perlcritic via tidyall in the test-perl target
• Rust implementation:
  • declare MSRV 1.85 for the Rust 2024 edition
  • minor changes suggested by Clippy
  • use clap_derive explicitly

0.4.1 - 2024-02-26

Additions

• Add an EditorConfig definitions file.
• Start some MkDocs-based documentation.
• Add a Tox configuration file for running the reuse SPDX check tool and building the documentation.
• Rust implementation:
  • add the run-clippy.sh tool for running diagnostic checks

Other changes

• Switch to yearless copyright notices with my e-mail address.
• Use SPDX copyright and license tags.
• Rust implementation:
  • rework it, bringing it up to date with Rust edition 2021 and with other changes since it was introduced
  • use the shell-words crate
  • use the clap crate for command-line parsing
  • use anyhow instead of expect-exit
  • make the path to cargo configurable in the Makefile

0.4.0 - 2018-05-04

Additions

• Add the --help and --version long options.
• Add the --features long option.

0.3.1 - 2017-09-29

Fixes

• In testing, get the file group from a new file created in the test directory to fix the case of enforced setgid directories.
• Create the test temporary directory in the system's temporary path to avoid future weird situations like the setgid case.

0.3.0 - 2017-02-27

Fixes

• Fix a memory allocation bug in the C implementation leading to destination filename corruption when the target specified on the command line is a directory.

Additions

• Add a Rust implementation.

0.2.0 - 2016-06-29

Fixes

• Explicitly test the Perl 5 implementation in the "test" target.
• Let the tests continue if an expected file was not created.

Additions

• Add tests for the -r reffile and -v command-line options.
• Add a C implementation.

0.1.1 - 2016-06-28

Additions

• Add the internal "dist" target for creating distribution tarballs.
• Add a test suite.
• Add a Travis CI configuration file and a cpanfile.

Other changes

• Reorder the functions a bit to avoid prototype declarations.
• Make the usage() function fatal by default.
• Move development from GitLab to GitHub.
• Switch the homepage URL to HTTPS.

0.1.0 - 2015-06-02

Started

• First public release.