On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Scott Brozell <sbrozell.rci.rutgers.edu>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I second the request for continuous integration,
> but testing before
> pushing is always necessary.
>
I absolutely agree. (I want to stress that I always try to do this, but
sometimes I "forgot" the edge case and thanks
any one (e.g: you) that caught it :D).
>
> If you are working in the master branch and change the behavior with
> respect to a global variable, eg, AMBERHOME, then you must install and
> test all of Amber (and with respect to a recent commit that automatically
> sets AMBERHOME, you must do it twice: both with and without an externally
> defined AMBERHOME).
>
thanks. I will remember this to more be more careful.
(I am setting up several machines to test some combinations now)
Cheers. Hai
>
> We are all facing deadlines and should be happy to be testing other
> peoples work; but secondary testers expect to be catching corner cases ...
>
> so great, truly great,
> scott
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 10:37:11AM -0500, Hai Nguyen wrote:
> > oh, add to Dave's comment: I have not though carefully about the case
> that
> > people using "--skip-python".
> > So I will work on this to ensure configure will respect this option
> (really
> > mean "no python involved").
> >
> > PS: I just wish AMBER has continuous integration (again) so I can capture
> > all possible install failures quickly.
> >
> > cheers.
> > Hai
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, David Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017, Ross Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > > So does this mean we are officially dropping RHEL 6 support?
> > >
> > > No. Amber users are provided (via conda) with the correct python
> > > (currently version 2.7). Amber codes will not use the system-supplied
> > > python,
> > > and hence won't care what version (if any) RHEL supplies.
> > >
> > > Note: there are still some glitches involved in this transition, but I
> > > think
> > > we are close.... Note that almost all users have been downloading their
> > > python from Contiuum since April of 2016, and so have not been relying
> > > on the system python for some time.
> > >
> > > [For personal reasons, some Amber users/developers may wish to
> > > use another python version. Since they are experts in python, they are
> > > welcome to do this. Much of the recent back-and-forth about python
> > > involves
> > > how much hand-holding we should provide for people who don't want to
> use
> > > the python we supply.]
>
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