I would agree with making v7.6.33 the recommended download - after all, it is
now over six months since it was made available for testing.
But that also raises a major question about future client development and
deployment - a question which is perhaps better addressed to the Project
Management Committee as a whole, rather than to David as an individual.
How are any future changes found to be necessary or desirable in the BOINC
client going to be made available to volunteers - I'm thinking specifically in
the Windows case.
That's a three-stage process:1) Build new binaries2) Package them into an
installer3) Distribute them via a trusted channel
At the moment, even the build stage is problematic: despite Christian's
assistance on the BOINC message boards a month ago, none of the build
dependency sets listed on
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit#Windowsbuilddependencies is
currently accessible.
I don't think the tools for updating the Windows installer have ever been
exposed for community use (there are ISM files in the 'installerv2' folder
available from github, but I have never found any documentation for how they
might be maintained and used by the community).
For many years - see for example github issue 792 and its predecessor trac
ticket 815 - windows installer issues have been deferred to 'the new open
source installer'. I would suggest that the PMC should look at all issues -
including funding - relating to recruiting and empowering somebody with the
necessary skills to re-invigorate and manage the build/deployment section of
the development process.
On Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 10:47, Filip Rydlo <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi, David and all.
No objections here too. :-)
Running *7.6.33* (x64) for *loooooooooooong* time
a) on *Windows 10* (at work) and
b) on *Windows 7* *Prof.* (home)
both: without any problems.
Filip R.
P.S. What is the specialization of Rom? I could learn it and then do it!
More specifically FROM date: *2017-04-02 ...... **indefinitely,
till I'll be alive. :-)*
2016-12-06 1:15 GMT+01:00 David Anderson <[email protected]>:
> Anyone object to making 7.6.33 the recommended version?
> It has 96% test coverage, and the only significant reported bug is a
> problem with GPU detection
> with new NVIDIA drivers, which I think is independent of client version.
> -- David
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Update recommended client to latest available development?
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:31:51 +0100
> From: Jord van der Elst <[email protected]>
> To: David Anderson <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> Can we have the latest available recommended client from the Download
> pages be set to 7.6.33 for both Mac and Windows, please? As this solves
> quite a bit of problems for users out there with Windows 10 and Mac OS X
> Sierra.
>
> And I'd rather have that version available than the slightly more broken
> ones before that.
> Especially since I doubt we'll have a new client in the foreseeable future
> anyway, with Rom having moved out.
>
> Should I leave Rom as moderator/project developer on the boards?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -- Jord van der Elst.
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