Re: [IBMiOSS] gmake: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

Aaron, none of the mainstream Linux distros let you do things like this.

Again, talking specifically about application level stuff (language
versions, build tools) and not as much the lower-level OS stuff. And it is
very prevalent to have multiple versions of ~languages~. Again, that's why
tools were made to switch between versions (rvm, nvm, etc).

Are bugfix versions of Node.js that unstable/unpredictable that you have

to really have to test this stuff?

Stability is only part of the reason. There's also changes to APIs
(iToolKit/DB adapter).

None of the OPS or OpenSSL/OpenSSH PTFs are marked delayed apply.

I am starting to think I had too many PTF updates going and that led me to
wrong perceptions of IPL (among other things I mentioned in response to
Larry). Thanks for waiting for my ignorance to clear.


Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/20/2016
11:25:24 AM:

From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07/20/2016 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] gmake: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

IBM does that (at least with Node, Python, and Java) with separate

options

on the Licensed Program. Maybe not granular enough though?

Correct, not granular enough. For example, IBM delivered Node.js

versions

0.12.9, 0.12.10, ... 0.12.13 and each upgrade wiped out the previous.

What

I do to work around this is tar up each version and extract it into a
different area of the IFS.

Aaron, none of the mainstream Linux distros let you do things like this.
They might have multiple packages for major versions to be installed
side-by-side (eg. Python 2 and Python 3, Ruby 1.9 and 2.0, ...). The only
Linux distros that I know of that let you do things like this are
GoboLinux, Guix, and NixOS.

Are bugfix versions of Node.js that unstable/unpredictable that you have
to really have to test this stuff?

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