On 2020-04-19 2:14 p.m., mar...@r-bechtold.de wrote:
Am 19.04.2020 um 22:46 schrieb Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com>:
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.
But you need it for setup and testing in development
It's already set up in the buildbot
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.
Something like this will active prevent innovation for the regular installation
because you have to backport all feature to a OS you don't have a test
environment for.
Stucking on python2 is not an argument its a symptom of this problems.
No I didn't suggest that and I didn't suggest supporting old distros
forever.
You are talking my argument to the extreme.
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