[ros-dev] Some upcoming changes

[Alex Ionescu]

Can we please 7zip logs instead of deleting them? Should give you
massive improvements (especially since A) it's text B) it contains
highly-repeatable file/function names).

Thanks!

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu



On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Colin Finck<mail at colinfinck.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just wanted to announce some upcoming changes. Comments are appreciated.
>
>
> Official removal of i486 support
> ---------------------------------
> The Mingw-w64 project held an internal meeting today. One of the decisions
> was to remove support for architectures older than i586 from their code.
> As we already use some of their runtime code and loosely planned to switch
> to a mingw-w64 x86/x64 multilib toolchain once that is released and stable
> (which should be the case in gcc 4.5.x), we will be affected by this change,
> too.
>
> Of course, the Mingw-w64 code would just add another problem to the pot of
> i486 incompatibilities.
> For example, some of our assembly code makes use of the CMPXCHG8B
> instruction (introduced in the Pentium).
>
> Though I don't know anybody, who tried a recent ReactOS build on an i486
> machine, I also never found a statement about the official removal of i486
> support.
> So as long as nobody objects, let's officially declare i486 support
> abandoned now.
>
>
> ISO cleaning on iso.reactos.org
> --------------------------------
> As we were right before running out of space on the ISO storage server (in
> fact, that would have happened when Aleksey was on his planned holiday trip
> :D), I've installed a script to clean old ISOs automatically now.
> The script will remove bootcd-dbg ISOs older than 2 years and all other ISOs
> older than half a year. This should free enough space while keeping enough
> important ISOs for tracking down old regressions.
>
>
> Testman log cleaning
> ---------------------
> Another service that takes more space than you might think is Testman. Logs
> for ~1300 revisions currently take around 2 GB.
> My plan would be to delete logs (not the actual test result numbers) older
> than half a year to keep the used space for them on an almost constant
> level. If nobody objects, such a script will be installed in the upcoming
> days.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Colin
>
>
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