[OPEN-ILS-DEV] OpenSRF 1.4

[Dan Scott]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:14:41AM -0800, James Fournie wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've noticed OpenSRF 1.4 is no longer on the "Downloads" page.  I am
> aware that it is no longer the "recommended" version, but are there
> serious reported problems with it or any reason we shouldn't be
> running it in production?

Hi James:

OpenSRF 1.4.1 is still available for download from
http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/OpenSRF-1.4.1.tar.gz but, given that
OpenSRF 1.6.x is the version recommended for use with Evergreen 1.6.x
and the upcoming Evergreen 2.0 releases, I updated the downloads page
accordingly. (Volunteers to update the code_museum.php at
http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/evergreen-ils.org
welcome!)

Given the lack of formal testing of interoperability between various
combinations of Evergreen and OpenSRF versions, and the relatively
limited resources we have to test and maintain concurrent releases of
OpenSRF, I suggest the safest path would be to upgrade to OpenSRF 1.6.x -
that way, any bugs that you do run into will be in common with the
recommended combination of versions.

As for any bugs that might be outstanding in 1.4.x that haven't been
backported from 1.6.x, changesets 2103 and 2215 address some corner
cases; I would hesitate before calling those "serious" though. Since
upgrading our own Evergreen 1.6.1.x instance from using OpenSRF 1.2.x to
OpenSRF 1.6.x, I haven't noticed a significant difference.

Dan