OK, thanks.

My impression of Git master is that there is often work-in-progress that
should not be expected to work.
Is it useful to report bugs while development is still in progress?
For example, trying it now I saw this:
Fail "Exception- InternalError: codeToPRegRev raised while compiling"

On 11 November 2017 at 19:37, David Matthews <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi Ramana,
> The fixes branches are useful in the early phase of the development cycle
> if bugs are found soon after a release.  At some point it is no longer
> viable to keep back-porting especially if there is a risk that the fix
> itself may introduce bugs.  This particular change was one of a number to
> make the thread system more resilient.  At this point I'd suggest switching
> to Git master.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
> On 11/11/2017 07:15, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Are you still updating the fixes-5.7 branch?
>> It seems to me that this commit might be a bug fix worth including, though
>> I'm not sure if it depends on new developments.
>> https://github.com/polyml/polyml/commit/5ba42e588373bd3cd63b
>> 8cadb8c4cb8a349c7fff#diff-27af5828c397c28b2fdeacab709ccf57
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ramana
>>
>> On 17 May 2017 at 00:49, David Matthews <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 16/05/2017 04:47, Jerry James wrote:
>>>
>>> I attempted to build this version for Fedora.  It succeeded on all
>>>> architectures except aarch64:
>>>>
>>>> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=19526061
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand the failure, though.  We run "make check" after the
>>>> build to gain some confidence that the build is good.  Here is an
>>>> extract from the build log
>>>> (https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/6133/19526133/build.log
>>>> ):
>>>> Test044.ML => Passed
>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/polyml-5.7'
>>>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1175: check-local] Error 1
>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/polyml-5.7'
>>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:997: check-am] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [Makefile:706: check-recursive] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> It looks like every individual test passed, but the test suite as a
>>>> whole failed.  Do you have any idea what might cause this?  Thank you,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The only thing that occurs to me is that one or other of the tests messed
>>> up the internal state so that when the poly process came to exit it
>>> crashed.  I don't have access to any machine running aarch64 (that's
>>> 64-bit
>>> ARM isn't it?) so there's no way I can test any of this.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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