FS#59629 - Update Julia to 0.7 first

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi (j605) - Monday, 13 August 2018, 01:13 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Monday, 20 August 2018, 08:58 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
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Description:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-use-julia-0-7-if-you-are-upgrading/13321

Skipping 0.7 will cause people to miss deprecation warnings and that is only difference between 0.7 and 1.0 at this point. I am filing this report preemptively as I see the maintainer is trying to update Julia to 1.0 in trunk.
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Closed by  Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Monday, 20 August 2018, 08:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Friday, 17 August 2018, 17:18 GMT
Even if the Julia package were upgraded to 0.7 before being upgraded to 1.0, there would be no guarantees that people would install and use version 0.7 on their system before upgrading to 1.0.
Comment by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi (j605) - Sunday, 19 August 2018, 12:10 GMT
I recommended that since it is needed to port your own code to 1.0 with deprecation warnings in 0.7. If this was not done, people would have to grab the tarballs from the website to just fix language issues :(
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Sunday, 19 August 2018, 19:36 GMT
@j605 how long do you recommend version 0.7 remain in community before moving to 1.0?
Packages can detect the old version that was installed if any. Are you suggesting just a warning be displayed if 0.7 has been skipped or the transaction be failed?
Or are you suggesting arch provides julia07 and julia?
Comment by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi (j605) - Sunday, 19 August 2018, 20:06 GMT
I guess if there is confusion, moving to 1.0 right away is fine. One of developers said that 0.7 is mainly for package authors so as a distribution we need not ship 0.7. I just thought it would be nice to have the buffer for normal users as well but if it is a burden for @trontonic, we can just directly go to 1.0.
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Monday, 20 August 2018, 08:58 GMT
Upgraded to 0.7. I am planning to upgrade to 1.0 as soon as I can get it to compile (there are several issues, and compile times are very long).

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