Merge pull request #37320 from JuliaLang/sf/artifacts_rework

Author: staticfloat

NEWS.md

@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ Standard library changes
 * `RegexMatch` objects can now be probed for whether a named capture group exists within it through `haskey()` ([#36717]).
 * For consistency `haskey(r::RegexMatch, i::Integer)` has also been added and returns if the capture group for `i` exists ([#37300]).
 * A new standard library `TOML` has been added for parsing and printing [TOML files](https://toml.io) ([#37034]).
+* The `Pkg.BinaryPlatforms` module has been moved into `Base` as `Base.BinaryPlatforms` and heavily reworked.
+  Applications that want to be compatible with the old API should continue to import `Pkg.BinaryPlatforms`,
+  however new users should use `Base.BinaryPlatforms` directly. ([#37320])
+* The `Pkg.Artifacts` module has been imported as a separate standard library.  It is still available as
+  `Pkg.Artifacts`, however starting from Julia v1.6+, packages may import simply `Artifacts` without importing
+  all of `Pkg` alongside. ([#37320])
 
 #### LinearAlgebra
 * New method `LinearAlgebra.issuccess(::CholeskyPivoted)` for checking whether pivoted Cholesky factorization was successful ([#36002]).

base/Base.jl

@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ include("weakkeydict.jl")
 include("logging.jl")
 using .CoreLogging
 
+# BinaryPlatforms, used by Artifacts
+include("binaryplatforms.jl")
+
 # functions defined in Random
 function rand end
 function randn end