On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/Sep/2010 14:10, Mark Hindess wrote: > > In message <4c877e2d.80...@gmail.com>, Tim Ellison writes: > >> On 07/Sep/2010 09:31, Mark Hindess wrote: > >>> I've run tests on freebsd 8.0 x86 and x86_64 for the latest > >>> milestone release and placed them at: > >>> > >>> http://people.apache.org/~hindessm/testing/5.0M15/freebsd.x86/html/ > >>> > http://people.apache.org/~hindessm/testing/5.0M15/freebsd.x86_64/html/ > >>> > >>> The x86 results have lots of crashes but the x86_64 results don't > >>> look too bad. They suffer from the fact that freebsd really needs > >>> to implement sockets using the dual ipv4/ipv6 mechanism that is used > >>> by the windows implementation but I think it is actually pretty good > >>> apart from that. > >>> > >>> I think it might be a good idea to create the x86_64 binaries with > >>> this milestone. What do others think? > >> I'd be uncomfortable about putting them alongside the platforms which > >> we have tested more thoroughly, and we know work well. > > > > Judging by the evidence of the last few releases, the windows 64-bit > > releases belong in the same category as freebsd as I am the only one > > testing them too. > > > >> Perhaps we can make a new area for 'previews' or some such idea...? > > > > Doesn't "milestone" already imply "preview"? > > > > I agree we need to set expectations appropriately but if we don't create > > something then we'll never get interesting in addressing the problems. > > I'm ok with that approach. > > As an aside, our download page is looking cluttered already, it would be > good to have somebody with a bit of design sense to make it look more > friendly. Looks like it was put together by a bunch of developers !! > I thought Harmony's users are developers too ;) We could use some user interface libraries make this page more pretty. I made a demo page, by using Tabs widget from JQuery UI, that group builds together with tabs, see http://www.yanglang.net/harmony/download.html. Probably we can have something like this for both hdk5.0 and hdk6.0? Regards, Lang > > Regards, > Tim > > > Incidentally, it is only relatively recently that the ipv6/ipv4 dual > > socket issue was resolved on the more typical java ports used on > > freebsd so there is an understanding of this problem in the community > > this artifact would be for. > > > > Regards, > > Mark. > > > > > > >
