Re: pkgsrc-2020Q2 released

["William J. Coldwell" <billc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Thanks to everyone who worked on this, and for working on the new changes in the process.

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> On Jun 30, 2020, at 8:01 AM, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 67th quarterly release
> of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc is available
> with more than 22,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
> information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/
> 
> In total, 440 packages were added, 111 packages were removed, and 2,844
> package updates (to 2,146 unique packages) were processed since the
> pkgsrc-2020Q1 release.
> 
> As well as a large number of new Haskell-based packages, for the 2020Q1
> release we also welcome the following notable packages additions and
> changes to the pkgsrc collection:
> 
> - Blender 2.83
> - Firefox 68.9.0, 77.0.1
> - Go 1.13.11, 1.14.4
> - LibreOffice 6.4.4.2
> - LXQt-0.15.0
> - MATE 1.24.1
> - Mesa 20.0.6
> - Mutt 1.14.5
> - MySQL 5.7.30
> - NeoMutt 20200619
> - Nextcloud 19.0.0
> - Node.js 10.21.0, 12.18.0, 14.4.0
> - notqmail 1.0.8
> - OpenJDK 1.11.0.7.10
> - PHP 7.2.31, 7.3.19, 7.4.7
> - pkgin 20.5.1
> - pkglint 20.2.0
> - postgis 3.0.1
> - PostgreSQL 9.5.22, 9.6.18, 10.13, 11.8, 12.3
> - PowerDNS 4.2.2, PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.1
> - Python 2.7.18, 3.6.10, 3.7.7, 3.8.3
> - qgis 3.10.7
> - Ruby 2.7.1
> - Ruby On Rails 6.0.3.2
> - Rust 1.43.1/1.44.0
> - SQLite 3.32.3
> - Squid 4.12
> - TeX Live 2020
> - VLC 3.0.11
> - WebKitGTK 2.28.2
> - WeeChat 2.8
> - Xfce 4.14.2
> 
> We say notable goodbyes to:
> 
> - Many legacy GNOME2 packages
> - MySQL 5.5
> - OpenJDK 7
> - PostgreSQL 9.4
> - Ruby 2.4
> - Squid 3
> 
> Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure:
> 
> - Users can now select the type of rust compiler with RUST_TYPE.
>  This defaults to "src" on most platforms for the traditional
>  bootstrap process.
>  For certain platform tiers, Rust publishes official binaries,
>  which can be selected with "bin" to avoid the lengthy bootstrap
>  process. This includes x86_64 Darwin, NetBSD, and Linux.
> 
> - RUST_TYPE defaults to bin on NetBSD/amd64.  This is a workaround for
>  difficulties with the normal (source build with a binary bootstrap)
>  build method.
> 
> - gfortran is now always the default Fortran compiler instead of g95.
>  This is expected to work better on newer CPU architectures and
>  support a wider range of software.
> 
> - Lua 5.3 is now the default version of Lua.
> 
> - Note that firefox does not build on NetBSD 8 (although
>  www/firefox-esr does), and this seems unlikely to be resolved. Users
>  who wish to run the non-extended support version of firefox are
>  advised to update to NetBSD 9.
> 
> Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
> http://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved from
> https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc or via cvs or tar file -- see
> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html.  The branch name for
> the 2020Q2 branch is "pkgsrc-2020Q2".