On 10/29/10 07:20 PM, Mike Witt wrote:
Is there any chance that Fedora 14 won't be supported?
It can't be fully supported until we have the hardware/software set up to test
it.
I have one FC11 machine, one FC12, and one FC13. FC12 has had no
problem with recent Sage builds. FC11 has had minor problems. Even
though sage is supported on Fedora 13, *my* fc13 machine
(admittedly a rather underpowered one) promptly
ceased being able to build ATLAS when I upgraded to fc13. Hence,
I've been hesitant to upgrade either of the other machines to
fc13.
Is there any chance of you making any of these machine which do *not* run Fedora
13 available to the build bot? There are 5 machines which the buildbot uses
which runs Fedora 13, but nothing for Fedora 11, 12 or 14.
IMHO it would be good if we could support the latest and one or preferably two
older versions of an OS.
I was hoping things would be better when FC14 came out. Perhaps
this is a vain hope?
-Mike
I'm a bit unimpressed with these backwards incompatible changes.
Getting code running on Solaris can be a pain, as a lot of code written is not
portable. But once it does work, it stays working. It would be extremely
unlikely for an OS upgrade to stop a binary working, and if it did, Sun would
have fixed the bug.
With Linux, it just seems the norm that when a new release comes out, software
that used to work stops functioning. In the last week I've seen tickets for
OpenSUSE, ArchLinux and Fedora, all where Sage built on older releases, but does
not on newer ones.
Dave
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