On 2020-04-19 1:07 p.m., mar...@r-bechtold.de wrote:
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
If it's an already installed version then they don't need the repo.
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.
This is part of having a project like this. and of course at some point
it becomes more trouble then it is worth. I don't see that we are at
that point. These are optional drivers we are talking of. When motion
can not compile any more then I agree. and obviously there is a tipping
point somewhere in between these two extreme examples. I am saying that
the first time an optional driver can't be easily made to compile that
we drop everything thing old.
I mean we are still stuck on python2 - so talking about optional drivers
holding us back is a bit odd.
That is just wasting valuable Developer time missing in the support of
essential features.
These weren't essential features.The easiest fix is to just not compile
them on older systems - I;m not a make file guru but that doesn't sound
like too much effort . There are plenty of bigger reasons we don't have
enough 'developer time'
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
That is absolutely not true. (and we are talking uses here not developers).
Even as a developer I find it a PITA sometimes. my Lathe computer I
think is on wheezy because I could not find a kernel that would work
with stretch but I do keep updating it fairly often in 2.8 (because
master does not support wheezy and 2.8 and master where very close )
We are the Debian of machine controllers. Slow to upgrade, stable and
boring :)
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