[m-rev.] for review: update rotd information page

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Paul Bone wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 07:04:57PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Update the ROTD information page.
>>
>> w3/download/include/rotd.inc:
>> 	Mercury is tested daily on Mac OS X machines.
>>
>> 	Update the list of Windows version on which Mercury has been
>> 	known to work to include 7 and Server 2008.
>>
>> 	Bump the recommended version of GCC to 4.2.
>>
>> 	Mention that clang can be used as an alternative C compiler.
>>
>> 	Comment out the stuff related to lcc for the time being;
>> 	I don't think its been tested for a very long time.
>>
>> 	Update broken links.
>>
>> 	Mention the C# backend and its requirements.
>>
>> 	Comment out the stuff related to the old .NET backend.
>>
>> Julien.
>>
>> Index: download/include/rotd.inc
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/w3/download/include/rotd.inc,v
>> retrieving revision 1.16
>> diff -u -r1.16 rotd.inc
>> --- download/include/rotd.inc	30 Nov 2009 03:01:18 -0000	1.16
>> +++ download/include/rotd.inc	3 Oct 2011 07:56:52 -0000
>> @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
>>  <p>
>>
>>  <ul>
>> -    <li> x86/x86_64 machines running Debian Linux -    <li> x86
>> machines running SuSE Linux +    <li> x86 and x86-64 machines
>> running Linux +    <li> Apple Intel machines (both x86 and x86-64)
>> running Mac OS X 10.5 and above
>>  </ul>
>>
>>  <p>
>
> I'd be worried about saying OS X 10.5 and above.  When apple make a new version
> of OS X it is likely to break things and people will read this page thinking
> that we've tested Mercury on the new version of OS X even though it's only been
> released for 2 hours.
>
> I recommend giving a range of OS X version numbers that we have tested with.

It should say 10.6 which is what eris actually runs at the moment.
(I'll mention 10.5 below.)

>
>> @@ -73,14 +73,11 @@
>>  <p>
>>
>>  <ul>
>> -    <li> x86 machines running Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP or Vista.
>> -    <li> x86/x86_64 machines running other versions of Linux
>> -         (however, there are some known problems with the version of GNU C
>> -	 that shipped with Red Hat Linux 7.0)
>> +    <li> x86 machines running Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7,
>> +         or Server 2008 R2.
>>      <li> x86 machines running FreeBSD 3.0
> Didn't we test on FreeBSD 8.x recently?  (merlot ran FreeBSD 8.x while you
> where using it for testing.  It's currently running 9.0-BETA1).

I tried it on merlot, the result was:

http://bugs.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?id=172

(If there is a new gcc on that machine now, we can try it again.)

Julien.
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