[Cucumber-linux-development] Announcing sysbuild18001 - the First Preview Build of Cucumber Linux 2.0

[Scott C. <sc...@cu...>]

Hello All,

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Cucumber Linux
sysbuild 18001.

What is a sysbuild you may ask? Every time Cucumber Linux is rebuilt
from scratch, it has the potential to end up with a new ABI. Recently, I
wrote an article about how to build Cucumber Linux from scratch
(https://z5t1.com/cucumber/wiki/cucumber_linux_from_scratch). Now that
we have transitioned approximately one third of the packages in the
binary distribution to the new build system format, it has become much
easier to rebuild the system from scratch. This is good because it makes
it much easier to test ABI breaking changes. The drawback to this though
is that it will result in a large amount of ABI diversity across
different development builds. In order to differentiate between the
different ABIs, each new build of the system will be given a unique
sysbuild number to identify it. More details and a list of sysbuilds can
be found at https://z5t1.com/cucumber/wiki/devdocs:sysbuild_numbers.

This new sysbuild was built from the Cucumber Linux 2.0 source tree. I
have tagged the point at which it was built as a pre-release
(https://github.com/cucumberlinux/ports/releases/tag/sysbuild18001).
This build contains only the packages found in phase 2 and will receive
no security updates. It is intended to be used only in testing
environments, primarily for testing the new toolchain and system
utilities. *Do not use it in a production environment*.

Once enough of the phase 3 packages are updated for the ports tree to
become self hosted I will make a second sysbuild. That sysbuild will
become the first alpha for Cucumber Linux 2.0 and will be used to build
the rest of the packages in the ports tree once they get updated.

You can download sysbuild 18001 at
https://cucumberlinux.com/all_downloads.php#sysbuild18001.

Happy Hacking,

    - Scott