On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:11:50 +1030 Simon <si...@simotek.net> wrote: > 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.
Sounds like a perfectly valid reason to me. We don't all have the luxury of using the very latest of everything, even if we want to. That's a point I try to get across every now and then. As for me, I've only just this month updated to Ubuntu 12.04, even though 12.10 is the latest. I want to stick with LTS versions. No doubt in a couple of years people will tell me I'm silly to stick with that ancient 12.04, and that I should just upgrade dammit. lol I will also test compile some of my own projects on a 10.04 system until after Ubuntu 10.04 is no longer supported by Canonical. Also, releases of that stuff I'll compile on a stock 10.04 system. No I don't do this just coz my head is full of nonsense. Pfffft -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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