On 08/22/2012 03:52 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > OTOH, I believe developers working on older systems should be ready to > install more recent developer tools once in a while. You can't truly > expect not to update your Automake installation for 3, 4 years!
Oh, _I_ fully wish that RHEL 5 would at least update the core toolchain (in fact, these links [1],[2] make it look like Red Hat is working towards a solution of supporting parallel toolchains, with a modern toolchain installed alongside the stable distro toolchain even for older RHEL). But the fact remains that Enterprise systems tend to lag very far behind the curve, and so you have a tradeoff of whether to support development on such old systems, or merely support the released product on old systems while requiring development on newer systems. At the end of the day, it boils down to a question of whether upgrading the toolchain would risk introducing FTBFS to some critical piece of in-house software, and enterprise customers frown at risk, so they really do use 3 and 4-year-old automake solutions. [1] https://www.redhat.com/developers/rhel/ [2] https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/1/html/User_Guide/chap-Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset.html#sect-Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset-About -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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