Deprecating legacy support (CentOS 5, Windows 32-bit) in CCTBX and Phenix
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Hi everyone, The upcoming Phenix 1.14 official release will still have installers for CentOS 5 and Windows 32-bit, but since CentOS is no longer supporting CentOS 5, and RedHat is only supporting RHEL5 through their Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (until November 30, 2020), we are planning on deprecating CentOS 5 support (32-bit and 64-bit). In addition, we are planning on deprecating 32-bit support for Windows because only a few percent (< 5% for both Windows and CentOS 5) of our Phenix downloads are for 32-bit versions. Please let us know if support for CentOS 5 (32-bit and/or 64-bit) or 32-bit Windows is a requirement for your systems. If so, also please describe your setup. Thanks! -- Billy K. Poon Research Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 33R0345 Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel: (510) 486-5709 Fax: (510) 486-5909 Web: https://phenix-online.org
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Hi Billy,
The upcoming Phenix 1.14 official release will still have installers for CentOS 5 and Windows 32-bit, but since CentOS is no longer supporting CentOS 5, and RedHat is only supporting RHEL5 through their Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (until November 30, 2020), we are planning on deprecating CentOS 5 support (32-bit and 64-bit). In addition, we are planning on deprecating 32-bit support for Windows because only a few percent (< 5% for both Windows and CentOS 5) of our Phenix downloads are for 32-bit versions.
If you deprecate CentOS 5, will you start to support CentOS 7? I mean right now, nightly tests run CentOS 5 & 6. Do you plan to make it 6 & 7? I am asking so that I can start planning for Bruker among other things… Best wishes, Luc
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Hi Luc,
With the planned migration to conda for dependencies, the idea is to build
one linux installer using the compilers in conda (currently GCC 7.2,
https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/build-packages/compiler-tools.html) and
then test that installer on multiple distributions of linux. CentOS 7 would
be one of the distributions used for testing.
Or do you need something sooner? We currently do not build our installers
on CentOS 7, but I have checked that the CentOS 6 installer runs and that
the regression tests (phenix_regression.test_all_parallel, which is a
superset of cctbx regression tests) pass on CentOS 7.
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Billy K. Poon
Research Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 33R0345
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 486-5709
Fax: (510) 486-5909
Web: https://phenix-online.org
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 7:31 AM Luc Bourhis
Hi Billy,
The upcoming Phenix 1.14 official release will still have installers for CentOS 5 and Windows 32-bit, but since CentOS is no longer supporting CentOS 5, and RedHat is only supporting RHEL5 through their Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (until November 30, 2020), we are planning on deprecating CentOS 5 support (32-bit and 64-bit). In addition, we are planning on deprecating 32-bit support for Windows because only a few percent (< 5% for both Windows and CentOS 5) of our Phenix downloads are for 32-bit versions.
If you deprecate CentOS 5, will you start to support CentOS 7? I mean right now, nightly tests run CentOS 5 & 6. Do you plan to make it 6 & 7? I am asking so that I can start planning for Bruker among other things…
Best wishes,
Luc
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Hi Billy,
Or do you need something sooner?
No, considering the timeframe for the move to conda is before the end of the year. I just wanted to know so that I can start advertising the change to the people on my side. Sorry if I missed that point during the meeting you invited me on. Best wishes, Luc
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Hi Luc,
No worries, let us know of any other concerns. Thanks!
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Billy K. Poon
Research Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 33R0345
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 486-5709
Fax: (510) 486-5909
Web: https://phenix-online.org
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 2:22 AM Luc Bourhis
Hi Billy,
Or do you need something sooner?
No, considering the timeframe for the move to conda is before the end of the year. I just wanted to know so that I can start advertising the change to the people on my side. Sorry if I missed that point during the meeting you invited me on.
Best wishes,
Luc
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