On 11/08/2017 05:11 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
Do you know why I prefer RHEL/SL 6 or 7 as my primary development environment? That's the platforms I'm targeting as the oldest supported releases. And that code will run on future major releases of RHEL/SL as well as the current Fedora releases. Had I used Fedora 26 for primary development, I'd be hitting all kinds of challenges when trying to make this run on RHEL 6 or 7.
Hi David, That is a wonderful idea. I wish everyone else would do it to, but the don't. Instead, their stuff won't run on RHEL and Clones. I have requested that various developers not use the latest, greatest for dependencies, but the result was a lot of ... Well I got no where. When I finally get off RHEL and Clones, I will indeed place SL into a Virtual Machine for such purposes. Before upgrading from SL 6 to SL7, I had a VM of 7 for about six months. I did not test too well. SL 7's upgrade was a nightmare, but something I really needed to do. I have been trying to pound a square peg into a round hole for too long. RHEL and Clones is really well suited where you need to computer to operate like an appliance, not for general innovation, which is what I was/am trying to force it to do. -T
