On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:55:21PM -0700, David E. Wheeler
wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 15:31, brad harder wrote:
>
> >Running a few Bric-1.10.3rc[x] release candidates
around the
> >community for a while should shake out bugs, and
after we're
> >satisfied, call it golden and let it into the wild
>
> I always upgraded the Kineticode and Bricolage
installs, and that was
> usually enough to shake out stuff in minor upgrades
like this.
> Someone with access to the Bricolage server can go
ahead and upgrade
> the Bricolage instance there, too.
>
> >We may also have access to FreeBSD on AMD64 as
well... not sure of
> >the status.
>
> Processor shouldn't matter.
We ran into an issue w/ a scientific math lib that was a
dependency of something (escapes me) that was either 64-bit
or AMD64 related... I _think_ it may have been something to
do w/ bric_ftp... it was a while ago... point is: it can
matter when you least expect it ;)
> >Anyway -- I think there're enough resources
(hardware/software/
> >people/data) to do some honest testing. We'd be
remiss if we didn't
> >test in any case, but at this point in time, it
might be really
> >painless, so we've got no excuses.
>
> Thanks for this, everyone. It will be a big help.
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
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-bch
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