[R] Re: [Rd] R-1.7.0 beta available

[Martyn Plummer]

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