Re: [BuildStream] BuildStream 1.4.0 released

[Adam Jones <adam jones codethink co uk>]

On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 19:27 +0200, Valentin David via buildstream-list
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the first release of new stable branch 1.4.
>
> BuildStream 1.4 is compatible in every way with previous BuildStream
> 1
> releases, and is not to be confused with the immense amount of
> ongoing
> work to ultimately create BuildStream 2, for which there is still no
> release date planned.
>
> BuildStream 1.4 is a small feature release meant to address a few of
> the current pain points people are having with BuildStream 1.
>
> What is BuildStream ?
> =====================
> BuildStream is a Free Software tool for building/integrating software
> stacks. It takes inspiration, lessons and use-cases from various
> projects including OBS, Reproducible Builds, Yocto, Baserock,
> Buildroot, Aboriginal, GNOME Continuous, JHBuild, Flatpak Builder and
> Android repo.
>
> BuildStream supports multiple build-systems (e.g. autotools, cmake,
> distutils, make, meson), and can create outputs in a range of formats
> (e.g. debian packages, flatpak runtimes, sysroots, system images) for
> multiple platforms and chipsets.
>
> =================
> buildstream 1.4.0
> =================
>
>   o Elements may now specify 'build-depends' and 'runtime-depends'
> fields
>     to avoid having to specify the dependency type for every entry in
>     'depends'.
>
>   o Elements may now specify cross-junction dependencies as simple
> strings
>     using the format '{junction-name}:{element-name}'.
>
>   o New `fatal-warnings` has been added to the project.conf format,
> allowing
>     projects to specify which warnings they want to consider as
> fatal.
>
>     Support for the following warnings is included:
>
>       o overlaps: When staged artifact files overlap
>                   (deprecates: 'fail-on-overlap')
>
>       o ref-not-in-track: When the source implementation finds that
>                           the ref is out of bounds for the tracking
> config
>
>       o git:inconsistent-submodule: A .gitmodules file is present but
> the
>                                     submodule was never added to the
> repo.
>
>       o git:unlisted-submodule: A submodule exists but is not
> specified
>                                 in the YAML declaration.
>
>       o git:invalid-submodule: A submodule is specified in the YAML
>                                declaration but does not exist at the
>                                given ref in the git repository.
>
>   o BuildStream now depends on python3 ujson (for some internal
> serializations)
>
>   o Workspaces can now be opened as relative paths.
>
>     Existing open workspaces will not be converted to relative paths,
>     (they need to be closed and opened again to get the new
> behavior).
>
>   o Dependencies can now be specified as strict to force rebuild in
>     non-strict mode. This is useful for statically linked
> dependencies
>     (#254).
>
>   o Git source plugins can optionally track human readable refs using
>     the output of `git describe`.
>
>
> Contributors
> ============
>  - Chandan Singh
>  - Daniel Silverstone
>  - Javier Jardón
>  - Jonathan Maw
>  - Josh Smith
>  - Jürg Billeter
>  - Mathieu Bridon
>  - Phillip Smyth
>  - Tom Pollard
>  - Tristan Van Berkom
>  - Valentin David
>
>
> Where can I get it ?
> ====================
> https://download.gnome.org/sources/BuildStream/1.4/
>
> For more information on the BuildStream project, visit our home page
> at https://buildstream.build/
>
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\o/ Awesome!

Thanks to all of the contributors :)

Adam