On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Dave McLoughlin wrote:
I believe I saw something in the mailing list about losing backwards
compatibility with 1.2 when 1.3 is released. Is that true?
Could you be referring to the planned obsolescence of bsam license data? Or
the forwards/backward database
I found it. Here¹s what I was referring to:
From Mary Laser to the fossology mailing list on 11/12/10:
³Furthermore, there is NO upgrade path from bSAM results to nomos results.
Therefore, you MUST rerun license analysis on your uploads using the nomos
analyzer introduced in 1.2.0.²
Thanks,
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This is correct. Since we get better and faster results with nomos, and bSAM
is difficult to maintain, we no longer want to support it. We don't want to
migrate your data because it is potentially very time consuming to rescan all
your uploads. This would be especially wasteful if you are
I¹m not sure I understand what ³upgrade path from bsam results to nomos
results² means.
If I have some scans from 1.1 and I upgrade to 1.3, does it mean I won¹t be
able to view the old results unless I rescan them in 1.2 using nomos.
re: suggestions? I don¹t want to have to rescan everything I
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