On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:58 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Marc, > > Thanks for the report. We had noted the release date for F7 as one of the > milestones to take account of in scheduling 2.5.1, and thought we might > just know an early adopter. Unfortunately the other milestone (the > release of gcc 4.2.0 for MinGW has not happened on the promised date, June > 1, AFAICS). > > [Before anyone asks, 2.5.1 is not yet scheduled.] > > Brian
In case it is of any additional use, over and above Marc's post, I installed F7 on my laptop at the weekend, and built R2.5.0-patched (version as of sometime on Saturday afternoon - sorry my laptop is at home and I'm still at work). Passed make check-all for me as well. All seems to be well with R and F7 thus far. G > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Just a quick heads up that I made the plunge into F7 this week. > > > > R version 2.5.0 Patched (2007-06-05 r41831) compiles and passes make > > check-all. F7 is using: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gcc --version > > gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12) > > > > > > Some quick F7 notes: > > > > 1. Do a clean install rather than an 'in place' upgrade from FC6 or a > > prior version. There are a lot of changes, not the least of which is the > > consolidation of Extras and Core into a single release. > > > > 2. There will be some '.fc6' suffixed RPMS installed if there were no > > changes from the FC6 versions. I have 91 of them, out of a total of 1545 > > installed RPMS. Note that the F7 version RPM suffix is 'fc7', not > > 'f7' ... > > > > 3. There are some issues with SELinux and policies, so I have reverted > > to running in 'Permissive' mode for the time being. > > > > 4. Do not use 'rhgb' (the Red Hat Graphical Boot) on the kernel boot > > parameters in grub.conf. Especially if (like me) there are boot time > > prompts (such as dmcrypt-LUKS passphrases) that need to be input during > > boot. This interaction requires going from graphical to text mode and > > back, presumably switching virtual terminals. This may be unique to > > nVidia based video hardware, but there seems to be some issues with VT > > switching, which also seems to cause problems for the 'Fast User > > Switching' features new to F7. The symptoms include partially drawn > > windows, incomplete logins and X freezes. > > > > 5. Emacs 22 has been released and is part of F7. From a quick look, it > > would appear that the 'xft/anti-aliasing' font support available from > > the CVS branch of 22 is not part of the formal stable release tree. Thus > > I will continue to use the version 23 Unicode branch from CVS, along > > with the latest ECB (cvs snap) and CEDET (1.0pre4 was just released > > today) tool versions. > > > > 6. The rumors/intentions of TeXLive being part of F7 were premature and > > teTeX is still in place. This is apparently due to the decision on the > > part of the Fedora leadership folks that TeXLive is not yet ready for > > prime time. > > > > > > Other than that, things seem to be well, but I suspect that there will > > be many updates coming in the first 30 days or so...the Fedora lists > > have been quite busy... > > > > HTH, > > > > Marc Schwartz > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
