the problem is that this distros are that old and EOL that you even can not just install it, do to missing repo servers that are shut off
You have to program around problems fixed in newer distro versions or you have to backport fixes just for a hand full of running installations and you have to test all off it. That is just wasting valuable Developer time missing in the support of essential features. Its realy not that Hard to update to a new distor, if you want to use a newer Linuxcnc version. You have to port your configs anyway. Markus > Am 19.04.2020 um 21:53 schrieb Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com>: > > Did you rty making it not try to compile on systems too old? > I'm not suggesting putting a ton of effort into making it compile on > everything. > > That's a huge difference. > > Chris > ________________________________ > From: Sync <e...@sync-hv.de> > Sent: April 19, 2020 7:10 PM > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] old distros > > On 19.04.20 20:47, Chris Morley wrote: >> Why does end of life matter to a machine controller? > > It doesn't. It matters for the developers. > >> If it is easy enough to keep support of an old distro then why not? > > Because it isn't. > >> One optional driver not compiling does not seem a good reason to drop >> support. > > It's just that one driver now, but forcing developers to use legacy > versions of their tools will drive people away. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
