On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 1:51 PM Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, Josh Boyer wrote: > > Josh, > > Thank you for the reply! I'm still poking around Stream 9, trying to > devise some site-specific configuration-management rules, so I > appreciate all the information I can get. > > >> Of note: java, perl and ruby are entirely streams now, while python > >> remains tied to the base OS. All RDBMS releases are streams. There > >> is no Tomcat! libgcc is part of the base OS but is also a stream. > >> I'm not sure how that will work. > > > > I can clarify that a bit. We have Application Streams and > > separately the AppStream repo. The AppStream repo contains the > > Application Streams, but it also contains things that are still part > > of the standard OS that aren't what we'd consider "Base" or "core". > > Ah! I hadn't understood that distinction. Thanks for the > clarification. > > > We'll have a similar page for RHEL 9 when that is released, but your > > list of languages and RDBMS in CentOS Stream 9 is a good start. Also, > > the python language stack will be slightly different in 9. We still > > have a system python (platform-python in RHEL8/CentOS Stream 8), which > > is python 3.9 but the packaging format is a more traditional RPM > > packaging. The same concept applies to the system level gcc, and > > therefore libgcc. > > Does that mean there might be, say, a python310 or gcc12 stream? Version specifics aside, yes there will be newer python and gcc (called gcc-toolset in RHEL 8) Application Streams in the future. They won't exist for every upstream release, but selected versions will be included. josh > > RHEL 8 does not include Tomcat either, so that is not new. > > Heh. I guess I should have looked at that. None of our internal Tomcat > users have yet moved to EL8. > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinlein at madboa.com > 45.38° N, 122.59° W > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos