[gambit-list] Gambit version for medical apps?

James Baker cycle.code.media at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 00:01:22 EDT 2016


LTS is a great idea but its also a fair amount of work so my humble opinion
would be to go for a much more recent release and work out any stability
issues that you may have from there which as Adam suggests could also
benefit the users who track releases as well, doesn't make a lot of sense
to start an LTS release now using a years old release of Gambit.

I'm happy to provide some debugging assistance as I'm working with OSX /
iOS currently but I could also be convinced to set up an Android testing
environment, it would just be a matter of finding the time.

Not at all trying to push my personal requirements here but I'd be happy to
contribute assistance to a more modern LTS.  Personally I'd hate to see
Marc get tied up managing LTS branches rather than pushing Gambit in new
and exciting directions.

James

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Adam <adam.mlmb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Re going with 4.7.0 or .2 because we know it works extremely well, maybe
> Brad's suggestion of taking a more recent Gambit version could be a
> productive idea also.
>
> At least that would serve to help pushing Gambit forward. (That is, we
> would find and resolve any bugs in the more recent version.)
>
> Perhaps doing two LTE:s, one for 4.7.0 and one for the current repo head,
> would make the most sense. We would know 4.7.0 works best currently that's
> all.
>
>
> 2016-07-05 7:59 GMT+08:00 Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu>:
>
>> On 06/27/2016 12:38 PM, Gorges, Matthias wrote:
>>
>> > Would you actually be interested in us filing issues against older
>> versions of Gambit (as we don't run the current one)? I am aware that the
>> core Gambit development team is very small, so I could understand that you
>> might not want to maintain those versions.
>>
>> Whether any of this happens depends entirely on Marc.
>>
>> I might suggest, though, that a specific, relatively recent version of
>> Gambit be nominated for "long term support" and that problems from all
>> platforms be reported against that *one* version.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, you're currently using different versions on
>> different platforms because of bugs and workarounds on those different
>> platforms for different versions of Gambit.  (That may not be so clear,
>> but I think you know what I mean.)  Fixing bugs on several Gambit
>> versions at once might seem too broad a support surface.
>>
>> Brad
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