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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:43:50 +0100
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] pkg 1.3.0 out!
Message-ID:  <FB1C2DAF-2174-468F-9BAC-BE82A4546F5F@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140723144249.GD69907@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20140723144249.GD69907@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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Great news!

I've been running the 1.3 prereleases for a while, and aside from one =
hiccup in the early alphas, it's been a very pleasant experience.

Thanks to all involved,

David

On 23 Jul 2014, at 15:42, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>=20
> I'm very please to announce the release of pkg 1.3.0
> This version is the result of almost 9 month of hard work
>=20
> Here are the statistics for the version:
> - 373 files changed, 66973 insertions(+), 38512 deletions(-)
> - 29 different contributors
>=20
> Please not that for the first time I'm not the main contributor, and I =
would
> like to particularly thanks Vsevold Stakhov for all the hard work he =
has done to
> allow us to get this release out. I would like also to give a special =
thanks to
> Andrej Zverev for the tons of hours spending on testing and cleaning =
the bug
> tracker!
>=20
> So much has happened that it is hard to summarize so I'll try to =
highlight the
> major points:
> - New solver, now pkg has a real SAT solver able to automatically =
handle
>  conflicts and dynamically discover them. (yes pkg set -o is =
deprecated now)
> - pkg install now able to install local files as well and resolve =
their
>  dependencies from the remote repositories
> - Lots of parts of the code has been sandboxed
> - Lots of rework to improve portability
> - Package installation process has been reworked to be safer and =
handle properly
>  the schg flags
> - Important modification of the locking system for finer grain locks
> - Massive usage of libucl
> - Simplification of the API
> - Lots of improvements on the UI to provide a better user experience.
> - Lots of improvements in multi repository mode
> - pkg audit code has been moved into the library
> - pkg -o A=3DB that will overwrite configuration file from cli
> - The ui now support long options
> - The unicity of a package is not anymore origin
> - Tons of bug fixes
> - Tons of behaviours fixes
> - Way more!
>=20
> Thank you to all contributors:
> Alberto Villa, Alexandre Perrin, Andrej Zverev, Antoine Brodin, Brad =
Davis,
> Bryan Drewery, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav, Dmitry Marakasov, Elvira =
Khabirova, Jamie
> Landeg Jones, Jilles Tjoelker, John Marino, Julien Laffaye, Mathieu =
Arnold,
> Matthew Seaman, Maximilian Ga=DF, Michael Gehring, Michael Gmelin, =
Nicolas Szalay,
> Rodrigo Osorio, Roman Naumann, Rui Paulo, Sean Channel, Stanislav E. =
Putrya,
> Vsevolod Stakhov, Xin Li, coctic
>=20
> Regards,
> Bapt on behalf of the pkg@




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