Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:00:28 +1000 From: David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [E-devel] Automake 1.11 To: enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20121115200028.339b23c0.onef...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:53:06 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:59:18 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> >> said: >> >>> Simon even mentioned that it's his work system that has this >>> problem. It's very likely that some company provided systems are >>> locked down to specific versions of development tools for the >>> companies own reasons. Say for instance to provide a common >>> development environment for all the developers. He might not be >>> allowed to upgrade automake. >> you dont need to be root to upgrade it. don't be silly. if you're a >> developer you can happily upgrade automake all you like - as long as >> whatever you want to upgrade doesn't need root privs (setuid root for >> example), you can do it. > I did not mention root. Could be "locked down" based on the boss > saying "Thou shalt use version X, and only version X, on pain of being > fired.". > We'll im glad to see i have generated some lively discussion, Lucas told me what i needed to know which is why automake is required so tomorrow i will install it in the home directory of my local user. The reason i don't upgrade is our development environment is interesting and old to say the least, for version control we use some web forms based on a bunch of scripts based on teamware and sccs running on a solaris server. Upgrading past Ubuntu 10.10 seems to break this setup, in short i don't know how most of our systems work, i don't want to know how they work and i figure the less i touch and change things the less likely they are to break. I do also know i have network drives mapped to some common install paths for build tools and that is more likely to break things. So if i didn't need to i was happy not to upgrade. I guess we will also make a automake package for SLES at the right version. In all honesty if i was in Rasters position i would have just said you need to upgrade so i know where your coming from.
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