Hello folks, Ken Hornstein writes: > Everyone, > > So now that we've started the release cycle process (thanks, David!) I > am wondering what the plans are for getting 1.8 packages into various > distributions. I did the Homebrew formula for MacOS X and I'm glad > to do it for 1.8. But I am wondering what other operating systems we > should target. Ones that come to mind are: > > - Various RPM-based distributions (Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, Rocky, and I am > sure others) > - Debian (and anything else that uses .deb files) > - FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD 'ports' systems > > I am sure there are others. I guess I am wondering what needs to be done > to "turn the crank" so 1.8 makes it into the packaging distributions. > I know for Homebrew once the pull request is accepted all Homebrew users > should get the new version relatively quickly, and I think the ports systems > are similar but I don't know what needs to happen for the others. > [...]
I will take care of pkgsrc (NetBSD one). I have already packaged the 1.8-RC1 in pkgsrc-wip to more easily test and update it and at least on NetBSD/amd64 current-ish (9.99.98) all tests passes. And yeah, at least for pkgsrc updating should be quick. Thanks!