Thanks for the heads-up! Will CS continue to be built on Xenial and BC on Precise?
Matthew Flatt writes: > As you may know, the Racket Git repo recently switched to Racket CS as > the default build. That is, if you check out the repo and `make`, then > you get an in-place Racket CS build instead of Racket BC. > > The next step in moving toward Racket CS is to try switching the > snapshot builds. Out current plan is to switch the Utah build on August > 13. The Northwestern snapshot build will be unchanged, for now. This > change will have no effect on the regular, release downloads. > > The layout of the page at > > https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/ > > will change so that CS and BC builds are grouped together, more like > the Northwestern snapshot layout, but an installer that doesn't have > "BC" in its link will download a Racket CS installer. > > If you have an automated process that pulls from the snapshot site, > then it probably downloads something like > > https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/installers/racket-current-x86_64-linux-precise.sh > > As of August 13, that will download a Racket CS installer instead of a > BC installer, because there's no "-bc" suffix in the name. > > Racket BC builds will still be available; you'll just have to > specifically select a download option with "BC" in the link name or > "-bc" in the URL. For example, > > https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/installers/racket-current-x86_64-linux-precise-bc.sh > > will download a Racket BC installer. For now, 32-bit Windows and Mac OS > installers will be available only for BC, because we view those as > legacy platforms. > > For consistently, you'll be able to access the CS installers using a > "-cs" suffix. The installer name without a "-cs" or "-bc" suffix is an > aliases for one with "-cs". Of course, the "current" names are all > aliases for installers that have a specific version number. > > While we're adjusting installer names, the canonical name for Minimal > Racket installers will change to "racket-minimal-..." instead of > "min-racket-...". The new name matches the names used for releases. For > the foreseeable future, "min-racket-..." aliases will still work, but > you should migrate to "racket-minimal-..." if you have an automated > process that uses "min-racket-...". > > > Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/m2wo242v0k.fsf%40192.168.0.142.
