Am So., 19. Apr. 2020 um 20:47 Uhr schrieb Chris Morley < chrisinnana...@hotmail.com>:
> Why does end of life matter to a machine controller? > Once you have a kernel/motherboard/distro combination that woks, > I wouldn't want to upgrade the distro unless I had to, because it probably > will become painful. > If it is easy enough to keep support of an old distro then why not? > One optional driver not compiling does not seem a good reason to drop > support. > Eventually we will need to but that is not a good enough reason IMHO. > if you dont want to update, dont update. once you have a linuxcnc version that works for you, keep it. updating major linuxcnc version is more complicated than updating the distro, as the config changes. It isnt easy to support them. its a pain for developers, and scares away new people. And stuff on the internet stops working. try watching youtube on ubuntu 8.04 try cloning a git repo that uses https. eventually developers want to use newer features. > > Chris > > ________________________________ > From: René Hopf via Emc-developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: April 19, 2020 4:58 PM > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net < > emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: René Hopf <reneh...@googlemail.com> > Subject: [Emc-developers] old distros > > Hi, > > I added the EOL date of the official distros to the wiki: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MinimumSoftwareVersions > Notice that only stretch and buster are not near end of life. > > Recently there have been 2 PRs with code that doesn’t work on old > compilers. > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/689 > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/714 > > I don’t understand why we support distros that have been released 8 years > ago. > Making newer stuff work on legacy software is just a waste of developers > time. > If people can’t be bothered to update the distro, why would they be > bothered to update linuxcnc? > As far as Im aware everything works on stretch. > > After a short discussion with jepler on irc, he mentioned that it hasn’t > been decided to drop support, and its unclear on how to decide stuff like > this. > > My proposal: > Keep 2.8 as it is, as it's near the release. > > Drop support for anything earlier than Stretch in master, and as soon as > python3 support is working, drop support for python2 in master. > Python2 is EOL since January, and it's not feasible to support both. > > Rene > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
