Ditto. Thanks Brian.
I agree with your assessment that there is no imperative whatsoever to do software fixes for something that will go away on its own in a few weeks. I will just advise editors that {val} may LOOK like it can do 13 and 14-digit numbers, but it can’t do them consistently and they should limit {val} to 12-digit significands. That will suffice for the vast majority of uses for {val}.
When the servers have all been upgraded to Ubuntu (I have a programmer friend with a triple-boot Mac with Ubuntu), then we can change the advise to editors about {val} being able to reliably handle 14 digits.
If you can remember, can you put a Post-it Note on your last Fedora box to e-mail me when you take it off-line?
[[User:Greg L]]
On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
All the remaining Fedora boxes will be reinstalled with our current, consistent Ubuntu installation over the next few weeks -- we just need to ensure that all text external storage has been successfully migrated out of the app server cluster before we wipe them. :)
In the meantime I'm not in a real rush to tweak and redeploy config files on the old setup for a cosmetic issue of this sort; but yes, it'll go away in time.
That's great, and thanks for your attention.
-Robert Rohde
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