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mod app_info.xml to show version on boincmgr or boincview?
Josef W. Segur:
--- Quote from: Simon on 23 Apr 2007, 03:26:56 pm ---...Anyway, seems like a worthwhile change. Do you know what minimum version of BOINC is needed to use the <user_friendly_name> XML field? Also, will older versions just silently ignore it or die?
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It was added in June 2006, but David forgot to say so in checkin_notes. That would be BOINC 5.5.1, maybe 5.5.0. In terms of release builds you'd need 5.8.x. Older versions won't die, at most they might show an "unparsed XML" warning. I'm running BOINC 5.2.12 and it just silently ignores that.
Joe
Simon:
Okay,
I'll change future release XML files accordingly. Tested it on BOINC 5.4.9 and 5.8.15, both don't complain, but only 5.8.x reflects the addition in the BOINC manager, as expected.
Regards,
Simon.
Pepo:
--- Quote from: Simon on 23 Apr 2007, 06:51:06 pm ---Tested it on BOINC 5.4.9 and 5.8.15, both don't complain
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It was nice extension idea, so I've added "<user_friendly_name>Seti 5.15 R-2.2B|xB+GFX|FFT:IPP_SSE2|Ben-Joe</user_friendly_name>" only to my BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\app_info.xml. In BoincManager 5.8.16 everything is so far so good.
And now :P my BoincView 1.5.0 beta8 shows:
SETI@home Beta Test - Seti 5.15 R-2.2B|xB+GFX|FFT:IPP_SSE2|Ben-Joe 5.17SETI@home - Seti 5.15 R-2.2B|xB+GFX|FFT:IPP_SSE2|Ben-Joe 5.15
Peter
Metod, S56RKO:
--- Quote from: Pepo on 25 Apr 2007, 09:30:42 am ---And now :P my BoincView 1.5.0 beta8 shows:
SETI@home Beta Test - Seti 5.15 R-2.2B|xB+GFX|FFT:IPP_SSE2|Ben-Joe 5.17SETI@home - Seti 5.15 R-2.2B|xB+GFX|FFT:IPP_SSE2|Ben-Joe 5.15
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That's a known feature of BOINC CC ... It used to be far worse as CC was not able to distinguish between identically named applications for two different projects (SETI and SETIbeta). When an user introduced app_info.xml for say SETI, then SETIbeta started to crash because it had a bit higher version number.
Pepo:
--- Quote from: Metod, S56RKO on 25 Apr 2007, 09:41:34 am ---
That's a known feature of BOINC CC ... It used to be far worse as CC was not able to distinguish between identically named applications for two different projects (SETI and SETIbeta). When an user introduced app_info.xml for say SETI, then SETIbeta started to crash because it had a bit higher version number.
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I do remember the feature, I was immediately using the then-newer Boinc aplhas. But as I understood Joe's related changes from many months ago, the issue should be really away. And, BoincManager does not suffer from it... :-\
[edit]How to take a look at the GUI RPC data flow? It's a local client, so Wireshark is useless, and I'd have to make the authentication manually, if connected over telnet...[/edit]
Peter
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