On 30/05/2015 Kay Schenk wrote:
On 05/30/2015 01:57 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
Assuming AOO builds on CentOS 6, is there any reason to insist
on CentOS 5?
There was a dissension. I did ask about the ramifications -- what
specifically IS the issue to moving to CetnOS 6 -- but got no reply.
I think it was already explained by Ariel and me at the time. But in
short, OpenOffice 4.x has CentOS 5.x (or the equivalent Red Hat 5.x) as
a baseline distribution: in a certain sense, we commit to keeping
sources buildable on CentOS 5 and to distributing binaries that run on
distributions as old as CentOS 5. In order to change our baseline
distribution we would normally need a compelling technical reason or a
major version change (say, OpenOffice 5.x).
Then for the buildbots we already use more modern distributions, but a
CentOS buildbot would best be setup with CentOS 5 for the reasons
explained above: a CentOS 5 buildbot would even allow us to build
releases directly on it. I'm not saying this is a prerequisite for
releasing 4.1.2, I'm simply explaining why the current situation makes
it much more useful to have a CentOS 5 buildbot than a CentOS 6 one.
Regards,
Andrea.
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