From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E5D71382C5 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 20:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4895AE08C8; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 20:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24893E08BD for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 20:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <73d200cb866d0cbd5018c13dc56aee3b3cabec99.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 21:21:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2FACD16B-B1D9-45CF-A1A6-238A8FADBDAD@gentoo.org> References: <2ef6e4ea5f0027d64cff71f3d210bfb902c84b4f.camel@gentoo.org> <2FACD16B-B1D9-45CF-A1A6-238A8FADBDAD@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: a166e8a0-07c2-48b3-970c-614b518b03d8 X-Archives-Hash: 9dee0074b0fe1c7f0ed1686909f3b06c On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 12:55 +0000, Marek Szuba wrote: > > On January 3, 2021 8:35:50 AM UTC, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > > I think it would be really great if we could publish a summary of > > (good) things that happened in Gentoo in 2020. > [...] > > WDYT? > > Good idea! At the risk of being accused of blowing my own trumpet, I would like to begin with: > > [slotted-lua] **Made it possible to bind packages depending on Lua to specific versions of this language** > > Thanks to the new eclasses "lua" and "lua-single", it is now possible to not only have multiple Implementations of Lua installed side by side but to bind their reverse dependencies to specific versions. With almost all Lua reverse dependencies having been migrated to these eclasses by Christmas Eve they have already been released to ~arch users, > Yes, that's certainly a great thing to mention. I'll word it with less technical details to keep the notes shorter, and also mention that this enabled us to unmask new Lua versions. > with stabilisation expected to take place by the end of 1Q 2021. Do you really want to wait so long? I thought the usual 30 days would work for most of these packages. In either case, I think we can skip specific dates. -- Best regards, Michał Górny