I agree with Tom.
El 2015-07-17 07:09, Tom Downes escribió:
Stuart:
Maybe you could comment more specifically on what you intend for admins of
OSes such as Debian 7 Wheezy which appear to include GT 5.2 based libraries
but also promise security support through 201X, X5?
I have not always found the globus.org [2] repositories to be Debian-friendly
so I'm not sure 5.2.X from debian.org [3] to 6.X from globus.org [2] is a
clean upgrade path.
Tom
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Stuart Martin smar...@mcs.anl.gov wrote:
Dear GT users,
We are announcing an end-of-life date for GT 5.2.5. Starting November 1,
2015, we will no longer support or maintain GT 5.2.5 or earlier versions of
the Globus Toolkit. We believe this is sufficient notice for users of GT
5.2.5 to plan and complete their upgrade to GT6.
GT 6 was released in September 2014 and we are encouraging all users to move
to this version as it provides multiple benefits over past releases. In
particular, GT 6 has significantly simplified the building, testing, and
distributing of the Toolkit, making it much easier for the developers to
generate updates with bug fixes and new features, and for admins to install
and maintain. We are currently working with package maintainers for EPEL,
Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu to ensure that the latest updates to GT6 are
available quickly and included in these distributions. The latest GT release
may be downloaded from: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/6.0/ [1].
Note that a GT release that is at end of life is: not supported, not
receiving any updates (no minor, major, security fixes of any kind), and is
not being built or tested on new OS versions. As with most open source
projects, we have limited resources and many competing priorities so it is
not possible for us to cost-effectively maintain multiple past releases if
we are to continue delivering new features and improvements.
Thanks for your continued support of Globus.
Links:
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[1] http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/6.0/
[2] http://globus.org
[3] http://debian.org
