[Swift-devel] Swift 0.93 exception on Fusion

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 14:00 -0500, Tim Armstrong wrote:
> This looks like the same bug I encountered in 0.92.1: 
> https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/show_bug.cgi?id=569
> 
> This affects SwiftR so I'm trying to work out what my options are to
> resolve it.  Is it possible to backport the fix to the 0.92 release?
> I can do this myself, or simply patch my own version of the source if
> you let me know the svn revision.

I don't think this was fixed. But I also don't think that it makes much
difference. Are your jobs otherwise failing?
> 
> I'm also not sure what the overall best approach for bundling Swift
> with SwiftR is.  My current approach is to simply include the most
> recent stable Swift release, but I seem to be missing out on relevant
> bugfixes from trunk.

You are also missing the lots and lots of bugs from trunk. We generally
quickly backport fixes from trunk to the stable branch if they are found
in both, but less quickly the other way around.

>   I'm looking in the near future to start distributed SwiftR more
> widely as a downloadable R package so pushing out bugfixes may become
> more of a pain.  Any thoughts on which version of Swift I should
> bundle with SwiftR in order to maximise stability?  

The stable one.