[gmx-developers] Release of 3.3.4 and 4.0.1 RE: gmx-developers Digest, Vol 54, Issue 9

[David van der Spoel]

Jim Kress wrote:
> What will be the differences?  Why not just release 4.0.1 and truncate the
> 3.3.x tree?
> 
Many people are conservative about upgrade, even though the benefits are 
obvious (look e.g. at the linux kernel).
Anyway, there are a few bug-fixes in the 3.3 tree, so we might as well 
bundle it.

> Jim Kress
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>> From: Erik Lindahl <lindahl at cbr.su.se>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:52 AM, David van der Spoel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> it seems that newer C-libraries on Linux boxes are more 
>> picky on how 
>>> to treat memory and pointers. I have recently fixed some old code
>>> (mshift.c) containing pointer arithmetic in 4.0 which is used only 
>>> when using particle decomposition. However the same problem 
>> is in the 
>>> 3.3 tree, I intend to fix it there as well. Are there other places 
>>> where this is done?
>>>
>>> We should probably try to fix another few bugs from 
>> bugzilla and then 
>>> release 3.3.4 and 4.0.1.
>> Yeah, that's more or less what we expected.
>>
>> My plan is to wait until (after) the weekend, release 4.0.1, 
>> and then also create binary packages. By then I should also 
>> have been able to create makefiles for MSVC, and fix possible 
>> compiler issues under windows.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Erik
>>
>>
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