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Stable Release 2008-04 : James Lee has released 1,680 software packages from the stable tree.
We are pleased to announce that the 2008-04 stable release has been delivered. Please see Special Instructions Below The “stable” tree is a collection of software packages that have all been previously released to the public and have no open bugs filed against them. The Blastwave Software Stack ( simply “the stack” ) is broken into three main trees of software packages. The first tree is called “unstable” and it changes frequently. Software packages are continually being updated and released to the public via the “unstable” tree. The next tree is called “stable” and it will only change after release engineering has checked and reviewed all bugs filed against all software packages. There is also an internal tree simply called “testing” and it is used for QA processes before a package enters the “unstable” tree. Our current release manager is James Lee and he works closely with numerous others to ensure that only qualified software may enter the “stable” tree. The “stable” tree will change only when a complete release is ready. At most this will be four times a year, depending on various factors. ![]() Each software tree has many branches. There exists a distinct branch for the x86 ( 32-bit Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron & Centrino and AMD Celeron & Athlon etc. etc. ) and this x86 branch also includes software for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processors. The Sparc branch is also on each release tree and it covers the sun4m ( HyperSparc, ROSS Sparc variants ) as well as 64-bit sun4u variations. Each of these architecture branches covers the various versions of production Solaris as well as beta release Solaris Nevada or Solaris Express. This includes the Solaris Express Community Release also but we can only truely say that we “support” the production grade releases of Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. The Solaris ABI ( Application Binary Interface ) assures users of Solaris that any application which is well behaved on Solaris 8 will also be well behaved on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. This is the “golden rule” of Solaris: any application that runs on a currently shipping edition of Solaris will also run on any other shipping edition of Solaris. Please feel FREE to join the mail lists at https://lists.blastwave.org/mailman/listinfo and talk with others about how to build, maintain, install and distribute open source software to the Solaris world. Below you will the complete list of applications and software packages in this, our 12th Stable Release. Dennis Clarke Sun Apr 13 23:42:58 GMT 2008 Special Instructions for this Stable Release From Official Announcement by James Lee - Stable Software Release Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blastwave's 2008-04 stable package collection is released and ready for use. The mirror sites have updated and you are advised to update stable installations. Blastwave's 2008-04 stable package collection is released and ready for use. The mirror sites have updated and you are advised to update stable installations. Python has been updated from version 2.3 to 2.5. The following old packages built with version 2.3 have been withdrawn from stable: CSWgnome-python - Python bindings for GTK CSWmeld - Graphical tool to diff and merge files CSWplucker - an offline Web and e-book viewer for PalmOS CSWpyeyed3 - ID3 tag editing in Python CSWpyldap - Python bindings for OpenLDAP CSWpymxbase - Date and Time types for Python CSWpypgsql - A Python DB-API 2.0 interface to PostgreSQL v7.x CSWpyxmlobject - a Python object-xml mapper CSWsip - SIP is a tool for generating bindings for C++ classes so that they can be accessed as normal Python classes If you currently have them installed then updating python will probably mean they cease to work. James Lee There are a total of 1,680 software packages in the “stable” tree.
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