6.2-RC2 available

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 14, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> But the last time it ran, it was with the 7.0 snapshot from 20051105.
> Can I just do a "binary upgrade" with 6.2-RC2 over that installation,
> or will that result in bad things?

Difficult to say. 20051105 was around 6.0-RELEASE. The 6-STABLE
branch was created in July 2005, so there were 4 months worth
of changes in -CURRENT between the 6-STABLE branchpoint and the
snapshot you run. So, it is possible that your 7-CURRENT has ABI
incompatibilities with 6-STABLE, in which case a binary "upgrade"
from 7-CURRENT to 6.2-RELEASE may not be trivial. However, given
that your 7-CURRENT is around the time of 6.0-RELEASE and given
that we try not to make big sweeping changes before the release
is out on the "parent" branch, chances are that no major ABI
incompatibilities were introduced yet.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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