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4992	Should we skip some versions of the Buildings library in Hudson testing and in the OMC installer?	Francesco Casella	Martin Sjölund	"@mwetter, if you check https://libraries.openmodelica.org/branches/master/ you can see there are currently 7 versions of the Buildings library, plus 2 versions of the older Annex60 library, in the OMC testsuite, each containing from 300 to 900 test models.

Every day, each of these libraries is tested with the latest 7 stable releases of OMC plus the master development version (see https://libraries.openmodelica.org/branches/overview-combined.html), as well as with the latest development version and the fmi, daeMode, newInst and daeMode-newInst flags, see https://libraries.openmodelica.org/branches/

That's really a lot of testing work, which is sometimes straining our servers a bit. It is of course of the utmost importance for us to test the latest versions of the library, so we can check the progress of coverage and performance of OMC on them. I am not sure if there is some added value at also checking all the previous versions, on a daily basis, ao we need your input about this.

In fact, this issue also affects the size of the OMC installer and the installation time, since all those versions are included.

I don't know if old versions of these libraries are still actively used and thus have value for end-users, or rather if they now have mainly a historical value. Can you please add a comment about which versions you'd like to see in the daily reports and in the installer, so we can streamline both processes? Please note that libraries using versions of the Modelica Standard Library older than 3.2.1 (which had several portability issues) cannot really be supported seriously by OMC, unless they are upgraded to use MSL 3.2.1 (or later).

I also take the opportunity of showing the recent progress with the new front end. [https://libraries.openmodelica.org/branches/history/newInst/Buildings_latest.svg Coverage of Buildings] is finally taking off, and we expect it to reach 100% in the following few months, hopefully overcoming all the outstanding issues that could not be fixed in the old front end.

Thanks
"	task	assigned	high		Testing Framework				Adrian Pop Michael Wetter