0.8.0 Release

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: rix
 Title: Rix: Reproducible Environments with Nix
-Version: 0.7.1
+Version: 0.8.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Bruno", "Rodrigues", , "[email protected]", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3211-3689")),

NEWS.md

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+# rix 0.8.0 (2024-07-02)
+
+## New features
+
+- Compute hash of git and CRAN archive packages locally if nix is installed
+- Added possibility to install local archives
+
+## User-facing changes
+
+- `rix()` now runs `rix_init()` to ensure runtime purity
+
+## Chores
+
+- Chores before releasing rix 0.8.0
+- stabilize API: get rid of `exec_mode` in core functions
+- Fine-tune formatting of *.nix files generated
+- low-level requests with {curl} -> remove {httr} dependency
+- ROpenSci review: complete documentation of internal functions
+- remove `nix_file` interface for `with_nix()`
+- `with_nix()`, `nix_build()`, `rix_init()`: refactor, simplify and separate internal messaging helpers
+
+
 # rix 0.7.1 (2024-05-24)
 
 - Better messages of comments on top of the generated `default.nix` files.