Th development plans

[Paweł Sikora]

On Tuesday 04 of September 2012 12:20:56 Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> Hi,
> After making a snapshot, and having (development wise) stable package set,
> I want to start refreshing the distribution. This means big changes in the 
> near future to get PLD back to being modern (or at least up-to-date) wrt
> current Linux world.
> 
> Below I present a plan (a.k.a The Roadmap) for Th:
> 
> - db 5.3 as default system BerkeleyDB
> - rpm 5.4.x 
> - perl 5.16.x
> - apache 2.4.x
> - 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
> - grsecurity support in our kernels will be dropped, until someone
> 	volunteers to keep that patch up-to-date 
> - kernel 3.4.x will become the new -longterm
> 
> Of course, the always-in-development model stays, other non-conflicting changes 
> are welcome, and if you have any comments and proposals please say so.
> 

i'm thinking about one idea - compiling linux distro with clang into platform
idenpendent bitcode (somthing like .rpm.noarch) and providing platform specific
ll-virtual-machine but currently there's a serious limitation - no shared bitcode
linking :/