David Summers wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Dan Christian wrote:
>
>> The Ubuntu long term support release (dapper) still ships with swig
>> 1.3.27. It would be a (needless) pain if that was no longer
>> supported. Not everyone updates there OS every 6 months or enjoys
>> building swig from scratch.
>>
>> Given that only developers are affected, what does it mean to "drop
>> support"? How much support effort will this really save?
>>
>> -Dan C
>>
>
> Same reasoning for RedHat Enterprise Linux. Normally a new version only
> comes out every 18 - 24 months. If it is not a problem to support older
> versions (unless some overriding reason like security or bad bugs) it
> would be nice to still support older versions of supporting libs.
Same counter-reasoning as in my previous message.
Users of enterprise, slow-update-cycle, distros should be using
Subversion release tarballs, not svn checkouts, and thereby be unaffected.
Max.
Received on Fri Sep 28 01:02:20 2007