On Sunday 13 September 2020 18:21:38 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 21:23, David Berndt <ber...@uberwin.com> wrote: > > It's an interesting idea but I can't afford that level of potential > > downtime currently. > > Updating to the latest 2.7 version should not take any effort, it > should be automatic (in fact I am surprised that it hasn't happened > automatically, it should be prompting you to update)
I'll agree with Andy. Every machine I have has a network cable and can update itself anytime I run synaptic which is usually about 2x a week. I can only recall 2 instances where updating linuxcnc from master, which is the development version, broke something. And I've been running master since the middle of the 2.4 series. You could claim I'm somewhere in the middle of the alpha tester category. In 16 years time I think thats phenomenal because each time I reported the breakage, it was fixed with the next download/update that same day or if late, early the next morning. gcode I wrote 16 years ago still runs as expected today. But by the same token, LinuxCNC has been improved, and I can occasionally see where today I could do that same job, faster and with fewer lines of smarter code. David is costing himself time and sheckels by being scared of downtime. Yes, I am a hobbyist, so downtime is less important to me, but running master, I report things that never get into mainline, and I do it so mainline users don't have to worry, thats my contribution to a healthy project. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
