Thanks! So something like git pull && git checkout release-0.4 && make
should work... Any idea of when 0.4 will be out as stable (I know it is out as development)? Cheers F On Monday, 10 August 2015 16:50:12 UTC+3, Scott T wrote: > > In fact, I imagine there will be a release-0.4 branch instead of a tag, so > you will probably be able to ignore the "git fetch --tags" and do something > more like "git checkout release-0.4". Anyway, my point being that quite a > lot will change in v0.4 so it's best to run the upgrade yourself (and you > can do it without deleting everything and starting again). There will > definitely be instructions available! > > Scott > > On Monday, 10 August 2015 14:44:07 UTC+1, Scott T wrote: >> >> Hi Federico, >> >> I think that what you need is as simple as doing something like >> >> git fetch --tags >> git pull >> git checkout v0.4.0 >> make >> >> from within the git repo once version 0.4.0 is out. It's not quite >> "magical", but you will probably want to push the button on the upgrade >> yourself instead of having it take you by surprise. >> >> Cheers, >> Scott >> >> On Monday, 10 August 2015 12:07:51 UTC+1, Federico Calboli wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> (assuming this is the right forum), according to the instructions here: >>> >>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia >>> >>> I can run the 'stable' release by cloning the git repo and then checking >>> out the 0.3 release. Now, I presume the 0.4 release will eventually become >>> 'stable', and so on and so forth. My lack of git-foo menas that I would >>> then remove the whole /usr/local/julia directory and start from scratch >>> with the new stable release. This is doable but I was wondering whether >>> there is a way of tracking the stable release that will magically upgrade >>> the whole thing to the next stable release when it is available. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> F >>> >>
