2015-03-24 22:38 GMT+01:00 Suckow, Thomas J <[email protected]>:
> > What prevent you to get JDK8 on slave to run the remoting agent, but use > >JDK installer to build your legacy JDK 1.1 application ? > > In many cases this is possible. I don't think this is documented all that > well though (I've done it once and it took me a while to get it right). I > would imagine this is something that should be in an upgrade guide. If you > can't run JDK8, then you get to run a legacy Jenkins install. > Didn't you just configured a JDK installation and select it from your job configuration ? > > > > Sorry, but rhel5 is not something that we should care about, AFAIR it on > >extended support. You can still use ancient jenkins version and ask RHEL > >support to do patches for jenkins. RHEL6 and RHEL7 were released long > >time ago - update your infra. > > I don't think we should be making sure NEW release cycles support RHEL5. > It is in extended support, people in that environment should be > comfortable dealing with tools from that era. That said, there are ways to > make it work, but it shouldn't be blessed. > > > > And it's simply not possible to update Jenkins (master) in isolation, > >the remoting model requires that all slaves use similar JREs, and satisfy > >the minimum requirements. > > But we shouldn't stay at Java6 forever. I am seeing a lot of hints at > making some radical changes/improvements. Should we really be talking of a > Jenkins2 and not expect people to auto-update to it? We could offer 1 or 2 > more LTS on the 1.x track. > What would change in 3/ 6 months ? Lot's of people will still run RHEL 5 and build legacy Java 1.3 applications. > > - > Thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/D1372128.11495%25thomas.suckow%40pnnl.gov > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANMVJzkzTA_R7-htBD_4nUD3CqfuSEreoSuf-g1rpu7XkaQJRg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
