From kent@REDACTED Sun Dec 3 16:36:45 2000 From: kent@REDACTED (Kent Boortz) Date: 03 Dec 2000 16:36:45 +0100 Subject: The update R7B-1 is released Message-ID: This is a bug fix release R7B-1. You can download the full source distribution or the patch (*) that take R7B-0 up to R7B-1. There where smaller patches, 14 of them, released earlier. This release and large patch replaces those, i.e. if you have applied them earlier then you have patched up to R7B-1 already. http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R7B-1.readme http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R7B-1.tar.gz http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R7B-0to1.patch.gz To patch you need a patch program that can handle the "unified" diff format. You apply the patch with % cd otp_src_R7B-0 % zcat ../otp_src_R7B-0to1.patch.gz | patch -p1 A FreeBSD package (4.X) and Linux RMP are planned to be released at the end of this week. There is no plan yet for when to release an update of the Windows binary release. kent (*) Read below about the difference between dowloading the full release and patching your old release. The release process for updates 1. We release fully tested source base releases. This is R7B-0, R8A-0, i.e. those ending in "-0". 2. We release selected source snapshots. This is snapshots that contains important changes and that passed the testing. These snapshots will be named R7B-1, R7B-2, ...... 3. We will release combined patches, i.e. one large patch that patch from R7B-0 to R7B-1, a second one from R7B-1 to R7B-2 etc. Note that the result after patching will not be *exactly* the same as the snapshot. Some precompiled BEAM files in the bootstrap part may differ. 4. When a move from one source release to the next require changes in the bootstrap compiler, then there will be no patch to upgrade. This forces a complete source release download with the correct binary BEAM files. 5. Binary releases for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows will be built from the complete source snapshots, i.e. not from a base source release with applied patches.