Hi, Robert,
Robert Osfield wrote:
Hi John and Jason, Can we get a little perspective on this issue. The build problem was a warning that we've already fixed in OSG-2.8 branch. As for snooty admin's, best to leave them alone if helping you out is too much for them.
There's no loss of perpective that I can detect. I think we're all still dealing with facts here. The fact is that there is currently no way to install CMake 2.6 on a Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS in a way that can be easily maintained and administered. The sysadmin's response may be a bit haughty, but nothing he said was untrue.
From what I can tell, there are three ways to approach this. Either OSG can continue to support CMake 2.4.5 until RHEL catches up to 2.6, or the sysadmins can make an exception and make CMake 2.6 available without an RPM, or the developers can stay with the current version of OSG until the next CMake becomes available on their systems.
From your response, it sounds like option 1 is still viable, which is good :-)
The warning that occurred in OSG-2.8.1 because of something I merged in from svn/trunk was in the release candidates and I made repeated calls for testing... Had we known about the issue it would have been fixed in less than five minutes and well before the release. So PLEASE don't ignore the calls for testing.
I think we all understand what happened. It's unfortunate, but I don't think it's a huge problem (IIRC, there are already plans for a 2.8.2 release anyway).
As for testing, I test OSG releases when I can. There are times I can test every RC during a release push, and there are times when I can't test any of them. I'd like to be able to test every single one, but my first priority is to my job and the tasks I have to do that day. I can't help it if those tasks keep me from testing an OSG release candidate. I'm sure a lot of folks are in the same boat.
Several times in the past you've mentioned that you're busy with paid work and can't do as much support as you'd like to, so I'm sure you know where I'm coming from. I'm not complaining about anything, it's just the way things worked out.
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