> On Jul 18, 2015, at 6:49 PM, jcam...@upel.edu.ve wrote: > > I agree with Tom. > > > > El 2015-07-17 07:09, Tom Downes escribió: > >> Stuart: >> >> Maybe you could comment more specifically on what you intend for admins of >> OSes such as Debian 7 Wheezy which appear to include GT 5.2 based libraries >> but also promise security support through 201X, X>5?
Sorry for the delayed response. I’ve been thinking about this some and plan to reply once the Globus team gets a chance to discuss this some more. >> >> I have not always found the globus.org <http://globus.org/> repositories to >> be Debian-friendly so I'm not sure 5.2.X from debian.org >> <http://debian.org/> to 6.X from globus.org <http://globus.org/> is a clean >> upgrade path. I’d encourage you to give the Globus GT6 repo a try. We'd be very motivated to help work through any problems you run into. We definitely want the Globus repos to be "Debian-friendly". >> Tom >> >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Stuart Martin <smar...@mcs.anl.gov >> <mailto:smar...@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: >> Dear GT users, >> >> We are announcing an end-of-life date for GT 5.2.5. Starting November 1, >> 2015, we will no longer support or maintain GT 5.2.5 or earlier versions of >> the Globus Toolkit. We believe this is sufficient notice for users of GT >> 5.2.5 to plan and complete their upgrade to GT6. >> >> GT 6 was released in September 2014 and we are encouraging all users to move >> to this version as it provides multiple benefits over past releases. In >> particular, GT 6 has significantly simplified the building, testing, and >> distributing of the Toolkit, making it much easier for the developers to >> generate updates with bug fixes and new features, and for admins to install >> and maintain. We are currently working with package maintainers for EPEL, >> Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu to ensure that the latest updates to GT6 are >> available quickly and included in these distributions. The latest GT release >> may be downloaded from: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/6.0/ >> <http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/6.0/>. >> >> Note that a GT release that is at end of life is: not supported, not >> receiving any updates (no minor, major, security fixes of any kind), and is >> not being built or tested on new OS versions. As with most open source >> projects, we have limited resources and many competing priorities so it is >> not possible for us to cost-effectively maintain multiple past releases if >> we are to continue delivering new features and improvements. >> >> Thanks for your continued support of Globus. > >
