DistRTgen: BOINC is up and running again

[Slicker]

I bet DiRT uses gzip compression of the output files. Somehow, they broke that in 7.x.x while adding compression support for something else. Yoiu know how it goes.... for every one needless enhancement, there have to be two bugs added to BOINC. I think they must be using "SCRUM" which, according to Wikipedia, "is a form of agile project management... does not require any creativity or intelligence"

Technically though, 7.0.x is still being tested. It took 34 versions before they got 6.10.x to work well, so my guess is that 7.0.x probably has a ways to go.

Important: I'm pretty sure that to downgrade to 6.x.x, you will need to abort all work, detach from all projects, and then do a complete uninstall, potentially deleting the data directory manually before attempting to reinstall 6.x.x because 7.x.x changes so much stuff that you cannot roll back to a previous version. They strongly suggested making a complete backup of the 6.10.x data directory prior to installing 7.0.x for a reason. Yep. I'm sure everyone did that, right? If you want to use bleeding edge software, prepare to bleed.

[STE\/E]

Important: I'm pretty sure that to downgrade to 6.x.x, you will need to abort all work, detach from all projects, and then do a complete uninstall, potentially deleting the data directory manually before attempting to reinstall 6.x.x because 7.x.x changes so much stuff that you cannot roll back to a previous version. They strongly suggested making a complete backup of the 6.10.x data directory prior to installing 7.0.x for a reason. Yep. I'm sure everyone did that, right? If you want to use bleeding edge software, prepare to bleed.

Their going to Update the Server ASAP, I'm running POEM, Milkyway & MOO Wu's with the 7.0.11 Client & the Wu's are Validating so it can be done. Quote from PowerBlade at the Forum:

I know we have to do it eventually, so we might as well have to do it as soon as possible and properly document the steps to do the upgrade.
Then it will make it easier for us to do upgrades in the future.

For now I just renamed the Original BOINC Folders & installed v6.12.34 & it's working on just 1 Box. I'll wait & see if they Upgrade in the next few days before switching any other back to an earlier version.

[Mike029]

Their going to Update the Server ASAP, I'm running POEM, Milkyway & MOO Wu's with the 7.0.11 Client & the Wu's are Validating so it can be done. Quote from PowerBlade at the Forum:



For now I just renamed the Original BOINC Folders & installed v6.12.34 & it's working on just 1 Box. I'll wait & see if they Upgrade in the next few days before switching any other back to an earlier version.

I'm on it as well. Let's see if we can break it.