On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> Given that we're starting now ( not a year or two ago) and it'll take > a while for it to really catch on, we should go CentOS 6 ( or > equivalent ) now? > > CentOS5 was released in 2007! That is a pretty long time in computing. > I understand the concern, but I think we should follow the lead of the other projects that have been doing portable linux binaries (holy build box, traveling ruby, portable-pypy, firefox, enthought, continuum) for some time, all based on CentOS 5. At some point things like C++17 support will be important and I agree that we'll need to update the base spec, but in the meantime, I don't see this as a problem where we should be the first mover. -Robert
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