From kent@REDACTED  Mon Sep  3 17:46:29 2001
From: kent@REDACTED (Kent Boortz)
Date: 03 Sep 2001 17:46:29 +0200
Subject: R8B PRE-RELEASES
Message-ID: <d2ofoswa3u.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>


************************ R8B PRE-RELEASES ************************

We are asking you for help testing the pre-releases (P8A) for R8B.
These are snapshots from our daily build and test.

The release notes and documentation is not completed yet but you can
view it in its current state, including a preliminary description of
the release highlights, at

  http://www.erlang.org/doc/p8a/doc/
  http://www.erlang.org/doc/p8a/doc/highlights.html

The different releases are

  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_sunos5_P8A-20010902-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

    Solaris 2.5.1 commercial binary pre-release. It is tested on
    Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7.

  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_solaris8_P8A-20010902-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

    Solaris 8 commercial binary pre-release.

  http://www.erlang.org/download/prereleases/otp_src_P8A-20010902-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

    OpenSource pre-release. Should compile and run on most Unix and
    Linux platforms including Apple OS X.

  http://www.erlang.org/download/prereleases/otp_doc_html_P8A-20010903-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

    HTML documentation and Unix man pages.

We will distribute pre-releases for Windows and Linux x86 soon.
 
We didn't plan to create commercial pre-release for other platforms
but let us know if you want to test commercial versions for VxWorks
CPU32, VxWorks PPC860, VxWorks PPC603 or Linux PPC605.

Some notes

  The graphical debugger is known to be broken.

  The HTML documentation links to 'ic', 'jinterface' and 'orber'
  are known to be broken. The Unix man pages for 'sofs' and 'xref'
  can't be reached with "erl -man <module-name>".

  The HIPE (High-Performance Erlang) native code compiler for Sparc is
  integrated into the OpenSource release. You can find more
  information about HIPE at "http://www.csd.uu.se/projects/hipe/".

  Solaris binary commercial pre-releases are packed using Solaris TAR,
  all others are packed using GNU TAR.

  All applications have the build date as the version number.

Please send problem reports to <erlang-questions@REDACTED>. If you
are a paying customer you can alternatively send the problem reports
to <support@REDACTED>,

The OTP Team


From kent@REDACTED  Tue Sep  4 11:41:18 2001
From: kent@REDACTED (Kent Boortz)
Date: 04 Sep 2001 11:41:18 +0200
Subject: R8B PRE-RELEASES
In-Reply-To: Kent Boortz's message of "03 Sep 2001 17:46:29 +0200"
References: <d2ofoswa3u.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>
Message-ID: <d2g0a3z41t.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>


Now you can also find the Windows version, the same for commercial and
OpenSource, at

  http://www.erlang.org/download/prereleases/otp_win32_P8A-20010903-SNAPSHOT.exe

kent


From kent@REDACTED  Fri Sep 14 17:46:48 2001
From: kent@REDACTED (Kent Boortz)
Date: 14 Sep 2001 17:46:48 +0200
Subject: R8B PRE-RELEASES
In-Reply-To: Kent Boortz's message of "03 Sep 2001 17:46:29 +0200"
References: <d2ofoswa3u.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>
Message-ID: <d2r8t9srkn.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>


************************ R8B PRE-RELEASES ************************

There are new prereleases. You find the OpenSource version and Windows
binary version at

  http://www.erlang.org/download/prereleases/

and the commercial releases in

  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_sunos5_P8A-20010913-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz
  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_solaris8_P8A-20010913-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

Some general notes and notes about changes since the last prereleases:

  - Most of Per Bergqvist's patch to remove warnings has been applied.

  - Use of the atom `try' will generate compiler warnings in
    preparation for add the try/catch construct in R9.

  - The problem reaching the Unix man pages for 'sofs' and 'xref' with
    "erl -man <module-name>" has been fixed.

  - You can find a comparison of the speed for some constructs 
    between R7 and R8 (lower numbers are better) in

      http://www.ericsson.com/cslab/~bjorn/benchmarks2/

  - There is some new documentation, one short "Some hints that may
    get you started faster" at the first page for those new to
    Erlang/OTP and one "Efficiency Guide" in the system documentation
    section

      http://www.erlang.org/doc/p8a/doc/


The OTP Team


From kent@REDACTED  Tue Sep 25 15:31:58 2001
From: kent@REDACTED (Kent Boortz)
Date: 25 Sep 2001 15:31:58 +0200
Subject: R8B PRE-RELEASES
In-Reply-To: Kent Boortz's message of "14 Sep 2001 17:46:48 +0200"
References: <d2ofoswa3u.fsf@erix.ericsson.se> <d2r8t9srkn.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>
Message-ID: <d2adzj9z1t.fsf@erix.ericsson.se>


************************ R8B PRE-RELEASES ************************

There are new prereleases. You find the OpenSource version at

  http://www.erlang.org/download/prereleases/

and the commercial releases in

  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_sunos5_P8A-20010924-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz
  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_solaris8_P8A-20010924-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz
  http://www.erlang.se/lic_area/protected/releases/otp_linux-x86-rh7.1_P8A-20010924-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz

The documentation is also updated

      http://www.erlang.org/doc/p8a/doc/

There is no updated Windows version at this time.

These prereleases contains various bug fixes,

The OTP Team