pkgsrc-2018Q1 packages for illumos now available

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that the pkgsrc-2018Q1 binary package sets for
illumos are now available.  As always you can install pkgsrc using the
instructions here:

  https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/

Of note for illumos users in this release are new packages for
Clang/LLVM 6.0.0rc3.  This compiler suite has been patched to
successfully build over 17,000 packages with pkgsrc, and should be
suitable for general use.

SmartOS users should use the new 18.1.0 images via imgadm(1M) due to
be released shortly.

Changes since pkgsrc-2017Q4:

 - Number of binary packages available:

   - x86_64: 18,000+
   - i386: 18,000+
   - multiarch: 13,500+

 - Notable new packages and updates (not all necessarily available as
   binary packages) include:

   - Clang 6.0.0rc3
   - Erlang 20.3
   - GCC 7.3.0
   - Go 1.10.1
   - Mutt 1.9.4
   - MySQL 5.5.59, 5.6.39, 5.7.21
   - NodeJS 6.13.1, 8.10.0, 9.8.0
   - OpenJDK8 1.8.162
   - PHP 5.6.35, 7.0.29, 7.1.16, 7.2.4
   - Postfix 3.3.0
   - PostgreSQL 9.3.22, 9.4.17, 9.5.12, 9.6.8, 10.3
   - Python 3.4.8, 3.5.5, 3.6.5
   - QT5 5.10.1
   - Ruby 2.2.10, 2.3.7, 2.4.4, 2.5.1
   - Ruby On Rails 4.2.10, 5.1.5
   - Rust 1.24.1
   - Xorgproto 2018.4

 - Package removals include:

    - Apache 2.2 and related modules
    - Various Xorg proto packages, unified by Xorgproto

 - Package removals include:

   - Emacs 22, 23, and 24
   - Firefox 10 through 38
   - GDB 5 and 6
   - KDE 3

 - Infrastructure changes:

    - TEST_DEPENDS has been introduced, along with :test support for
      USE_TOOLS.

    - USE_LANGUAGES now supports gnu++03 and c++03 to explicitly set
      the standard and allow older packages to build with newer
      compilers. Many packages have additionally been fixed to use
      these.

 - Commit stats since 2017Q4:

   - 213 packages added
   - 76 packages removed
   - 1,979 package updates (to 1,355 unique packages)
   - 4,955 commits from 69 contributors

Please report any bugs or feature requests specifically related to
this binary package set on our GitHub issues page:

  https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/issues

Enjoy!

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com