The Northwestern natipkg build will be changed to be a CS build so I believe that means that the pkg builds will now running on top of CS (and otherwise unchanged).
Robby On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 2:41 PM Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > How will this affect the pkg-build snapshots? > > Sam > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 3:33 PM Robby Findler <ro...@cs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: > > > > I'm finally catching up and switching the Northwestern snapshots to BC > by default. I've made the change and the changes will kick off tonight at > midnight, Chicago time (probably failing horribly but maybe in a week or > two we'll be back in business and the next paragraph will be accurate when > that all settles). > > > > All of the existing links should continue to work (let me know if you > notice that didn't happen) but they will generally be CS where they were BC > builds before. In particular, we're going to continue to have windows BC > and CS, 64 and 32 bit builds; 64 bit BC and CS Mac OS builds, and 32 bit BC > Mac OS builds. I've added Debian 64 bit CS builds, so we'll have 64 bit BC > and CS as well as 32 bit BC builds for debian. For the rest, the 64 bit > versions will all become CS builds and the 32 bit versions will all stay BC. > > > > There will be explicit links ending with -bc and -cs as well as aliases > that do not include the VM specifier that go to whatever is available, as > Matthew describes for the Utah snapshots and "min-racket" will also change > to "racket-minimal" (but still with an alias to avoid breaking old links). > > > > Robby > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 5:24 PM Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> > wrote: > >> > >> As you may know, the Racket Git repo recently switched to Racket CS as > >> the default build. That is, if you check out the repo and `make`, then > >> you get an in-place Racket CS build instead of Racket BC. > >> > >> The next step in moving toward Racket CS is to try switching the > >> snapshot builds. Out current plan is to switch the Utah build on August > >> 13. The Northwestern snapshot build will be unchanged, for now. This > >> change will have no effect on the regular, release downloads. > >> > >> The layout of the page at > >> > >> https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/ > >> > >> will change so that CS and BC builds are grouped together, more like > >> the Northwestern snapshot layout, but an installer that doesn't have > >> "BC" in its link will download a Racket CS installer. > >> > >> If you have an automated process that pulls from the snapshot site, > >> then it probably downloads something like > >> > >> > https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/installers/racket-current-x86_64-linux-precise.sh > >> > >> As of August 13, that will download a Racket CS installer instead of a > >> BC installer, because there's no "-bc" suffix in the name. > >> > >> Racket BC builds will still be available; you'll just have to > >> specifically select a download option with "BC" in the link name or > >> "-bc" in the URL. For example, > >> > >> > https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/installers/racket-current-x86_64-linux-precise-bc.sh > >> > >> will download a Racket BC installer. For now, 32-bit Windows and Mac OS > >> installers will be available only for BC, because we view those as > >> legacy platforms. > >> > >> For consistently, you'll be able to access the CS installers using a > >> "-cs" suffix. The installer name without a "-cs" or "-bc" suffix is an > >> aliases for one with "-cs". Of course, the "current" names are all > >> aliases for installers that have a specific version number. > >> > >> While we're adjusting installer names, the canonical name for Minimal > >> Racket installers will change to "racket-minimal-..." instead of > >> "min-racket-...". The new name matches the names used for releases. For > >> the foreseeable future, "min-racket-..." aliases will still work, but > >> you should migrate to "racket-minimal-..." if you have an automated > >> process that uses "min-racket-...". > >> > >> > >> Matthew > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20200811162420.18d%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu > . > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAL3TdOOw%2BBkMj%2B-vN_mfbe%2Bt2MMuwuVtpyQDJyeOUoyjOWkHpA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. 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