On 05/30/2015 05:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > 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).
I understand this but from a technical standpoint, what are the show stoppers with ver 6 vs 5? Or, put another way, what would be impacted in AOO if this change were made today? > > 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. Sure, in fact, this is what Juergen suggested in his resignation as Release Manager, and for some reason, I thought (maybe?) we had agreed on: http://markmail.org/message/qh6uzkfjcya647sb 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. > OK, thanks. In summary, we seem to agree that establishing buildbots for our actual binary release candidates is more than just important, but necessary. I do admit that maybe this wasn't clear to everyone. -- -------------------------------------------- MzK "We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo." -- David Letterman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
