latest cvs & previous snapshot are compatible ?

[Michael Hohmuth]

suzukis at file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp writes:

> The latest Fiasco which is available through CVS has 
> the compatiblity with the previous snapshot (at 990428)?

In theory, yes.  However, we don't do a lot of integrative testing
with what we check into our CVS repository; so what you get from the
CVS can be less stable than what you find in the snapshots, although
we do aim to having a working state at all times.

> I've just compiled new Fiasco (main, rmgr, sigma0),
> sample server (hello) and L4-Linux 2.2 on my PC.
> I copied them into the grub-ext2-fs-floppy
> (thus, grub is same with that of the previous snapshot),
> but I could not make them work well, even hello server
> does not run.

Oops, this shouldn't happen. :(

> (Sorry, I can't report displayed message at present.)

The error messages are important to diagnose the problem.

> I will check some couples of the combinations among
> old/new kernel, old/new pager, old/new server, etc.
> If compiled correctly, the new programs can cooporate 
> with old programs?

Yes, this should be possible.

Michael
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