Subject: Re: apk-tools release imminent
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From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:10:41 -0600
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Hello,

On 2020-08-24 04:55, Timo Teras wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's a good amount of things piled up in the current apk-tools
> master branch:
>   - addition of manual pages
>   - auto generation of help from manual pages
>   - reworking of options parsing
>   - upgrade named packages and --ignore
>   - some refactoring of the io framework
>   - lua updated to 5.3
>   - humanization of size output (kB/MB/GB suffix)
>   - deprecation of the old/original apk package format
>   - various bug fixes
> 
> I am still going to fix some minor issues in the new 'upgrade'
> functionality.
> 
> But I expect to tag 2.12 (_rc1) soon, and upgrade aports. If you can do
> early testing from the git master, that's appreciated.

Great!  I am already using git master to manage my system, it works fine 
so far.

> After this, I hope to get back on track to work on the apk version 3
> features.

I can't wait to dive into apk-tools v3 work.

Ariadne