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To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: many animals are running old clients
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:48:12 +0200
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On 2018-08-17 23:27, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The majority of buildfarm animals are not on the latest client code
> release. Version 8 was released more than 3 months ago. There are 26
> animals on release 7 and 43 on even older releases, in one case on a
> release going back 4 years. See below for the lists of delinquents.
I've updated all my animals below to version 8.
> conchuela | [email protected] | 007000
> grison | [email protected] | 007000
> loach | [email protected] | 007000
> sidewinder | [email protected] | 007000
> curculio | [email protected] | 004018
It might be worth to send out a email directly to the animal owners that
a new version is out. It's easy to miss if you don't follow the mailing
lists.
Just a suggestion.
And regarding:
"I do my best to keep things backwards compatible, so that usually an
upgrade is simply a matter of unpacking the release and you're done. I
don't think asking people to do that once every few months is terribly
onerous. It's a five minute job."
Every time I upgrade I need to go through all the .pl-files and change
the path to where perl is located as different os/distros has perl at
different paths and also it's not even consistent within the shipped files.
For example:
% head -n 1 *.pl
==> run_branches.pl <==
#!/usr/bin/perl
==> run_build.pl <==
#!/usr/bin/perl
==> run_web_txn.pl <==
#!/c/perl/bin/perl
==> setnotes.pl <==
#!/usr/bin/perl
==> update_personality.pl <==
#!/usr/bin/perl
I also go through the config-file line by line to see if anything is
changed or added.
It's not a big deal though. Keep up the good work!
/Mikael
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