X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from dal-a2.localdomain (unknown [74.117.189.115]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAD6DC036E for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (3.203.202.84.customer.cdi.no [84.202.203.3]) (using SSLv3 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ncopa@tanael.org) by dal-a2.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45967BC2696 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:32:26 +0100 From: Natanael Copa To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: [alpine-devel] Plans for Alpine Linux 3.0 with musl libc Message-ID: <20140324103226.37d73bc6@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-alpine-linux-uclibc) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, We are planning to do an Alpine Linux release 3.0 in May 2014. With this release we will switch to musl libc instead of uclibc. Here are the plans we have for this: * Set up builder for musl libc package. This is done already but needs to finish automation bits. Packages are available from 'edge-musl' repository for now. * Rename 'edge-musl' to 'edge'. At this point all edge users will need do full reinstall (apk upgrade -U -a or similar). There are already tests done for this so I don't think it will cause too much pain. http://kaniini.dereferenced.org/2014/03/23/upgrading-to-alpine-musl.html * Make alpha iso image with musl libc and test that installers etc works. * Fix as many bugs as possible and make sure the remaining packages builds (or deprecate those who does not) * Make release candidates. * Make 3.0 release. The 3.0 release can be considered 'beta' since this is a brand new libc that has not been tested much, and will not get enough time for getting tested thoroughly. Because of this we will most likely reduce the support time for this release to maximum 1 year, and instead extend the bugfixing period for v2.7. We are also working on armhf support for this release and would like some feedback on what boards people are interested in. I would also like to say that so far the work with musl libc have been surprisingly pleasant. -nc --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---