February 5th, 2013
On the new anaconda
For those who wondered why we made such drastic changes to anaconda over the last few releases, Will Woods has written a great explanation here. No, it was not just change for the sake of change. Yes, it was all done for a reason, and the pace of improvement in the installer will now be much more rapid than it was before.
One Response to “On the new anaconda”
For all the rants about anaconda, I for one am delighted with the new layouts, and ease of use.
As an old developer (50 years of writing code), I know the effort behind a design, and the hours dedicated to fixing the buglets.
I had two spare disks on two systems, so I tested anaconda natively as a 64bit and as a 32bit installation. (Just as I do my own code). Why two tests? Well, just see below.
I did manual partitioning, it worked just fine.
So all the gryping about?
Wonder why I test with 32bit and 64bit? Check out the definition of uint32 below.
#ifndef __WORDSIZE
#include
#endif
// typedef unsigned long uint32;
//
#if __WORDSIZE == 64
typedef unsigned int uint32;
#else
typedef unsigned long uint32;
#endif
By Leslie Satenstein February 20th, 2013 at 7:23 am