Indeed I do not see how we could provide support that oracle does not. We should be realistic.
>>> for older systems, you are by your own. Is like that, yes. >>> >>> We cannot maintain all VM for all possible configurations. Nobody can do >>> that, not even canonical, less us. Ubuntu 8.04 is just too old. >>> >>> Even JVM is not supported on Ubuntu 8.04: >>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/config-417990.html >>> (latest is 10.04... which we support, or intent to at least) >>> Also... we are not oracle, we have more limited resources. >>> >>> So , is not a workaround. Is the only reasonable solution: every software >>> provider in earth supports a limited amount of system configurations, >>> usually from some years ago, we provide at least the sources, instructions >>> and support in the form of help/answering questions. >>> >> >> This is not the only instance of the problem. >> If I'm not much mistaken, same problem has been recently reported for Debian >> 7 >> (Laszlo Zsolt KIss, 08/08/13 10:43). As Andres pointed out (08/08/13 14:40), >> it's libc is 17 months old. The proposed "solution" was the same - recompile >> on target system. > > in that moment answer was: compile it yourself until we provide a working > version (which we now provide). > Ubuntu 8 is another problem :( > but do not get me wrong... is not that I do not would want to help... is just > that I need to be realistic about what I can and what I don't :( > > >> >> To make me clear, I have no problem if you say "Sorry, we don't support >> anything older than 12 months. Or 3 years. Or ...". I just don't think >> that asking people to recompile whenever there is glibc dependency problem >> is "real solution". >> >> I'm very sorry for starting this pointless discussion. >> >>> >>>> >>>>> we can offer support (but should be pretty straight forward, specially in >>>>> linux systems). >>>>> >>>>> I disagree with the solution proposed in (2), the cost of maintaining >>>>> such approach would be exponential. >>>> >>>> No, not really. There aren't many of those (at least, weren't in my case) >>>> and I found out that sometimes I could do better (faster) job :-) >>> >>> you are invited to provide your working version, it would be cool for >>> everybody :) >>> >> >> Unfortunately, I've done it for a different VM :-) >> >> >> Best, Jan >> > >
