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Development plans for PLD 3.0 (Th)

Overview of changes planned to PLD Th.

Software updates

Software Progress Comments
texlive 2012 ?? work in progress
ruby 2.0 (2.1?) 0% ruby 2.0 is faster than 1.9.3, and minimally different to 1.9 (compared 1.9 to 1.8)
256 colors terminals 0% make 256 colors the default in all capable terminals
Java cleanup 0% java-sun is full of security holes and unmaintained, java-oracle looks to be non-redistributable, they're both scheduled for removal from ftp. Icedtea will become our java environment.
Samba 4 99% Replace samba 3.x packages with samba4, new packages in th-ready (2014-01-21)

System wide changes

  • full systemd support (provide systemd units, but still support SysV scripts - at least until vserver will be able to run systemd)
  • drop *-initrd packages, building them is becoming a RPITA, and the net gain is not worth the pain

Completed targets

BerkeleyDB 5.3 100% In Th on 22nd September 2012 along with rpm5, but rpm uses BDB 5.2
rpm 5.4.x 100% In Th on 22nd September 2012
perl 5.18.x 100% Available with all dependant packages in Th since 30th June 2013
apache 2.4.x 100% In Th on 7th June 2013
kernel 100% grsecurity support has been dropped, linux-3.4.x is now “longterm”
th-next.1390332094.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014-01-21 20:21 by baggins