How will this affect the pkg-build snapshots? Sam
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 3:33 PM Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm finally catching up and switching the Northwestern snapshots to BC by > default. I've made the change and the changes will kick off tonight at > midnight, Chicago time (probably failing horribly but maybe in a week or two > we'll be back in business and the next paragraph will be accurate when that > all settles). > > All of the existing links should continue to work (let me know if you notice > that didn't happen) but they will generally be CS where they were BC builds > before. In particular, we're going to continue to have windows BC and CS, 64 > and 32 bit builds; 64 bit BC and CS Mac OS builds, and 32 bit BC Mac OS > builds. I've added Debian 64 bit CS builds, so we'll have 64 bit BC and CS as > well as 32 bit BC builds for debian. For the rest, the 64 bit versions will > all become CS builds and the 32 bit versions will all stay BC. > > There will be explicit links ending with -bc and -cs as well as aliases that > do not include the VM specifier that go to whatever is available, as Matthew > describes for the Utah snapshots and "min-racket" will also change to > "racket-minimal" (but still with an alias to avoid breaking old links). > > Robby > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 5:24 PM Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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/20200811162420.18d%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu. > > -- > 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/CAL3TdOOw%2BBkMj%2B-vN_mfbe%2Bt2MMuwuVtpyQDJyeOUoyjOWkHpA%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/CAK%3DHD%2Ba4P-LW%3D1%3DvnMZRtf3Cnx5eZ6hUTQqRZbGPbEc1YRmD7g%40mail.gmail.com.
