Filepro Version 5.0.15

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:07:46AM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
> > As a developer of toolsets for software developers?
> >
> > I'm going to keep a non-646 patched machine in my build farm.
> 
> Is that a general rule about updates to OS's they support? If so where does 
> that stop?
> The obvious problem is no one can do that for Linux even if you could for 
> every single other OS.

No, but it hasn't proven to be an *issue* on Linux, either.

> Or are you assuming a level of detailed support for this particular OS such 
> that they know Open Servers quirks specifically, enough to know the various 
> milestones in the Open Server line and so treat pre/post oss646*, rs50**, 
> osr50*mp* almost like distinct OS versions.

Sure I am.  It's been their bread and butter for almost 30 years.

> That might not be unreasonable, to be expected to know that it's worth 
> trying to stick to binaries that need as few of any of those updates as 
> possible, without actually accepting known bugs in your binaries or even in 
> the surrounding system if they're in areas that affect you.

At the very least: once you're notified that it's an issue, you go back
and add non-646 to your build farm, for those times when you'll need it.

> The one pattern is, there was no problem before pcmiler went udk, and the 
> same problem has been present in every version since then. So, either udk is 
> broken or osr5 is broken, or pcmiler is broken, or, the one innocent would 
> seem to be filepro, except, I can't cause the failuer any other way except 
> inside a filepro system() command and the same exact commands work outside 
> of fp, so you can't quite rule them out either.

Yeah; I hate complicated interaction scenarios...

> Of course now osr5 in general hardly matters to me any more so this is all 
> academic.

My favorite auto-antonym, yes.

Cheers,
-- jra
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