On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:59:40 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> said:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:29:20 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:33:49 -0200 Lucas De Marchi
> > <[email protected]> said:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Carsten Haitzler
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:33 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > > > <[email protected]> said:
> > > >
> > > >> On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, David Seikel wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:54:19 +0200 "Alex-P. Natsios"
> > > >> > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > stupid suggestions but can certainly happen if you forget to
> > > >> > > check them :)
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > 1) what autofoo versions does Ubuntu 11.04 have? maybe its
> > > >> > > too old? 2) same goes for their GCC version
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I was gonna rant and rave about not being too old, but then
> > > >> > checked and Ubuntu 11.04 HAS reached EOL (End Of Life) in
> > > >> > October.  So yes, good idea to upgrade Ubuntu in this case.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > <rant>
> > > >> > Now, had it been Ubuntu 10.04, that's a whole other story,
> > > >> > it's not past it's EOL yet, so versions of autofoo and gcc on
> > > >> > it are by definition, not too old.  Coz the definition of "too
> > > >> > old" should NOT include popular distros that are still
> > > >> > supported by their makers. </rant>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Ahahah. That means nothing, really. Who committed to LTS of that
> > > >> version is Canonical/Ubuntu, not Enlightenment. Imagine a
> > > >> scenario where some crazy dude says he has a distribution with
> > > >> 20 year support, we'll try to match?!
> > > >
> > > > you know how i love to disagree with you... but you are
> > > > absolutely right. *WE* didn't commit to support of 10.04 or 11.04
> > > > of ubuntu. canonical did. we are free to raise out requirements
> > > > as we see fit. we did not commit to keeping them static.
> > > 
> > > WTF is happening to the world?  I, Gustavo and Raster agree on
> > > something
> > 
> > end of the world man... i all started with e17 release :)
> 
> We only have to keep arguing for another few months, then Ubuntu 10.04
> will EOL as well.  At least on the desktop, server keeps going for a
> couple more years.  No one wants to run EFL stuff on a server.  Oh
> wait, yes they do.  B-)
> 
> > > > i DO suggest that we keep in mind though that we will have people
> > > > on older systems and by ensuring we don't build/run on them we
> > > > basically lose users. :)
> 
> Isn't one of our design goals to be able to run on all sorts of low
> powered ancient crap hardware?  So yes, we DO want such people as
> users, and to run on fridges, toasters, and my mothers old Mac.  OK, we
> can skip my mothers old Mac, she don't use it any more anyway, and it
> pre-dates Apples sensible move to a Unix core.

"skiw" hardware simply implies SLOw hardware... it does not require the
os/software/libraries on it be ancient..


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