R help - Mar 2003 - Re: [Rd] R-1.7.0 beta available

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 15:26, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> >>>
> >>>[...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>As an aside, RH 9 to be called ''Shrike'',
(curiously skipping 8.1 due to
> >>>>binary incompatibility issues) will be available on March
31 to paid RHN
> >>>>subscribers. It will be available a week later to all
folks.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Martyn Plummer has already mentioned this and that he will be
testing it
> >>>before release.
> >>
> >>OK...I must have missed that post. Apologies.
> > 
> > 
> > It was to R-core, so there was no way for you to know.
> > 
> > 
> >>I will be downloading the RH 9 ISO''s early as a paid RHN
subscriber, so
> >>if there is anything that I can do to help Martyn in validating or
> >>confirming any issues, let me know. I have cc''d Martyn on
this post.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the offer: I am sure Martyn will appreciate it.  Meanwhile
I am
> > replacing a RH7.2 machine with an RH8.0 one.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> 
> Prof. Ripley,
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> FWIW, RH 8.0 has been very stable on my Dell i8200 laptop, upon which I 
> run RH 8.0 dual-booted using GRUB with WinXP Pro.
> 
> It will be interesting to see the improvements in RH 9, especially any 
> performance enhancements and X related updates including, as I 
> understand, better AA font support, which will be helpful on the UXGA 
> LCD panel.
> 
> Martyn, let me know if I can be of help.
Many thanks for your help Marc. You just have to run "make check" on
the
latest beta on RH 9.0 and let us know what happens. A clean install,
rather than an upgrade is the best testing environment since an upgrade
may leave RPMS from previous installations lying around, but you are not
obliged to do this.  I don''t expect any problems this time since the
major change relates to threading and, as Brian has already pointed out,
R doesn''t use threads.

By the way, I shall continue to provide R RPMS for RH 7.x for those
people who follow the rule of never upgrading to an x.0 release.

Martyn

>-----Original Message-----
>
> SNIP
>
>Many thanks for your help Marc. You just have to run "make 
>check" on the latest beta on RH 9.0 and let us know what 
>happens. A clean install, rather than an upgrade is the best 
>testing environment since an upgrade may leave RPMS from 
>previous installations lying around, but you are not obliged 
>to do this.  I don''t expect any problems this time since the 
>major change relates to threading and, as Brian has already 
>pointed out, R doesn''t use threads.
>
>By the way, I shall continue to provide R RPMS for RH 7.x for 
>those people who follow the rule of never upgrading to an x.0
release.
>
>Martyn
Martyn,

You are very welcome.  

It was my plan to do a clean install with RH 9. I am hoping to
download the ISO''s via RHN during the week of the 31st along with the
other paying bleeding edge adopters, so hopefully I will have an
answer that week.

This is predicated of course on it being reasonable to have an
optimistic outlook relative to there being no substantive problems
during the install and subsequent tweaking...  :-)

BTW, on the x.0 release issue, a perhaps not so subtle point.  All of
the recent official RH informational documents and e-mails have it as
" RH 9", not "RH 9.0".  Perhaps an indication that RH is
moving to a
whole version numbering scheme to enable faster adoption of new
versions...marketing...  ;-)

Best regards,

Marc