From fd5efabddde82c20e08d96338c94ae020d51f6ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ethan Frey Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:08:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add docs on (un)supported systems --- README.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 38478e48ad5..e6de6d670fc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,11 +17,17 @@ This code was forked from the `cosmos/gaia` repository and the majority of the c The `v0.7.2` release is based on `cosmos-sdk` `v0.38.3` and should be used in any public networks (as that fixed a security issue). +## Supported Systems + +The supported systems are limited by the dlls created in [`go-cosmwasm`](https://github.com/CosmWasm/go-cosmwasm). In particular, **we only support MacOS and Linux**. Even for Linux, we only support `glibc 2.12+`. This includes all known supported distributions using glibc (CentOS 7 uses 2.12, obsolete Debian Jessy uses 2.19). **We do not currently support `muslc` systems, such as Alpine Linux**, which is popular in docker distributions. + +There is some work done in `go-cosmwasm` to extend support, but it is rather tricky with Rust build flags. + ## Stability **This is alpha software, do not run on a production system.** Notably, we currently provide **no migration path** not even "dump state and restart" to move to future versions. At **beta** we will begin to offer migrations and better backwards compatibility guarantees. -With the `v0.6.0` tag, we are entering semver. That means anything with `v0.6.x` tags is compatible. We will have a series of minor version updates prior to `v1.0.0`, where we offer strong backwards compatibility guarantees. In particular, work has begun in the `cosmwasm` library on `v0.7`, which will change many internal APIs, in order to allow adding other languages for writing smart contracts. We hope to stabilize much of this well before `v1`, but we are still in the process of learning from real-world use-cases +With the `v0.6.0` tag, we are entering semver. That means anything with `v0.6.x` tags is compatible with each other, and everything with `v0.7.x` tags is compatible with each other. We will have a series of minor version updates prior to `v1.0.0`, where we offer strong backwards compatibility guarantees. In particular, work has begun in the `cosmwasm` library on `v0.8`, which will change many internal APIs, in order to allow adding other languages for writing smart contracts. We hope to stabilize much of this well before `v1`, but we are still in the process of learning from real-world use-cases ## Encoding