Deprecating legacy support (CentOS 5, Windows 32-bit) in CCTBX and Phenix
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
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
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.
--
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
Hi Luc,
No worries, let us know of any other concerns. 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
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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