Chris,

My impression is that going for a 32-bit cog spur linux vm is safer in
your case.

--Hannes

On 2/2/17, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So maybe the VM are not blessed, but I don't expect less stability than
>> the
>> "officially" blessed.
>
> Okay, that's what I really wanted to know.  Thanks, I'll upgrade to
> today's built version.
>
>> Anyway, do we care of "official" blessing?
>
> Like you said Eliot is in a separate branch with the new GC'er.  I
> assume he created a separate branch because the changes are bound to
> cause breakage for a while.  I wanted to know whether any similar
> experiments in the main branch could impose similar risks.
>
>> What we need is more testing rather than more blessing, otherwise how
>> could
>> we certify anything?
>
> More testing of which version?  New versions are popping out every
> day, upgrading becomes something done when there's a reason to, not
> because there's a new version.  Within 24 hours of upgrading, it'll be
> just another old version -- unless it was blessed.
>
> Some situations need to emphasize stability, it seems like it would be
> nice to have a baseline version that is known not to have have any
> halts or debugging stuff or experimental stuff, and so it could be
> more easily accepted into wide usage and testing in those production
> situations.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Of course, it may seem cavalier to ask production guys to be the
>> beta-tester, but you know that nothing help more...
>>
>>
>> 2017-02-01 21:51 GMT+01:00 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01.02.2017, at 21:25, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is it safe to use the latest?  Or, if not, is there a blessed version
>>> > since 5.0-201608171728?
>>>
>>> nope :(
>>>
>>
>>
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