Thanks for the info. I could also do with a three
day break from Csound, so I will probably not touch
CVS until the Windows packages are done.

Perhaps it's time to re-group and assess the work
that needs to be done.

Victor


>
> Hi Victor,
>
> I could wait, but that also means that no one should check
> anything else in as well so that the builds are all the
> same, or that it should be retagged as Anthony suggested,
> which would let us continue to check in things for the
> next four days. I don't think I have anything else I
> particularly have in mind to work on at the moment so this
> isn't hold me up personally and can wait. (Though a retag
> might be worth it anyways).
>
> Regarding Fedora, I haven't ever skipped versions when
> upgrading, but I'll say that when I upgraded, what
> normally happens is that some packages don't get updated
> as they're from 3rd party repositories, but they mostly
> still just run even in the new system.  All of the Planet
> CCRMA packages I have are still fc5 and still work (the
> bigger programs got migrated to Fedora Extras so new
> versions of those were upgraded).  I also in the past have
> used 3rd party repostories like ATrpms, Dries, Dag, and
> others, which seem to be a set different than Fedora
> Extras, Livna, and I think Nrpms.  Since Fedora Extras has
> really expanded it's scope since fc5, I'm now trying to
> remove all 3rd party packages that aren't compatible with
> the Extras repository (the other repositories tended to
> have conflicting versions of certain software) as it makes
> upgrading easier.
>
> This upgrade was the most painless yet, just had to go
> online after the installer upgrade and used yum to upgrade
> the other packages on my computer from online
> repositories.  Each upgrade I've done since fc3 has just
> gotten easier.  There's always a few things that might
> need a little tweaking or fixing up after an upgrade, but
> I'm pretty satisfied. Things all around just feel nicer
> and I'd highly recommend FC6 if you have the time to
> upgrade.
>
> I tried googling for information on going from 4->6 but
> didn't find much.  I've done 4->5, then 5->6, and managed
> to do it without losing anything, so can at least say that
> that process works.  As always though, a backup of /home
> and /etc and anything particular installed is prudent.
>
> Just wanted to share that in case it's of any use!
>
> steven
>
>
>
>
> On 11/10/06, Victor Lazzarini 
> > wrote: Perhaps wait for Michael to get his build ready,
> > it might avoid confusion.
> >
> > I wonder if it's possible to upgrade from FC4 directly
> > to FC6 easily as well.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I've just made a modification to the virtual keyboard
> > > (added 10 sliders for midi controller data) and was
> > > wondering if it's safe to check this in or if I should
> > > wait as it seems that the version.h changes happened
> > > after the tagging so if Michael goes to build on
> > > Tuesday he can't just update from tag, and this change
> > > isn't necessarily meant for 5.04 (maybe a 5.04.1, but
> > > not meant for this current release).  I'd rather it
> > > not accidentally end up in the Windows build but not
> > > be in the other builds.
> > >
> > > BTW: A screenshot is available at:
> > >
> > > http://kunstmusik.com/virtualKeyboard.png
> > >
> > > Also, I noticed that after recently upgrading to
> > > Fedora Core 6 (which, btw, it was a very easy upgrade
> > > from FC5 to FC6, using just the DVD installer's
> > > upgrade feature) that the fonts used to render text in
> > > FLTK are wider than what I had before, thus the labels
> > > for some of the items are now a bit wide.  They did
> > > look fine on Windows and Linux on FC5.  Has anyone
> > > else experienced different font rendering with FLTK?
> > > And does FLTK have any layout manager type things that
> > > can resize components to fit them in? (I'm used to
> > > those in Java Swing but haven't found anything in FLTK
> > yet.) >
> > > Thanks!
> > > steven
> > >
> > >
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