[GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 18:39, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> The Wiki section on upgrading should help you with compatibility.
>
> For a few major releases now, the policy is that the last minor release
> of a series will be able to read a file from the next major release.
>
> So whatever the last 3.x was, *should* be able to read a 4.x file. But
> if there is no reason to not upgrade all machines to the one that
> matches, the file, I'd just go ahead and do so.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>

It depends on the effort to recompile on Linux. If building on linux is
relatively painless, then I will upgrade if I decide to use the software -
I'm still a bit undecided on that.

Dave

>
> On 12/3/21 10:52 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > Thank you. There are a huge number of changes. I've just downloaded the
> > Windows version, and will look at recompiling the latest version version
> on
> > Linux. At least I should be able to move a file between windows and
> Linux -
> > I assume that saving a version in 4.x, then trying to read that in 3.x,
> > might well cause a problem.
>
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