On 16/09/15 17:14, Mike Stump wrote: > On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@suse.de> wrote: >> Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> writes: >> >>> The software presently works with 1.4.4 and there aren’t any changes >>> that require anything newer. >> >> SLES 12 has 1.4.4. > > Would be nice to cover them as well, but their update schedule, 3-4 years, > means that their next update is 2018. They didn’t update to a 3 year old > stable release of dejagnu for their last OS, meaning they are on a > 7 year > update cycle. I love embedded and really long term support cycles (20 > years), but, don’t think we should cater to the 20 year cycle just yet. :-) > Since 7 is substantially longer than 2, I don’t think we should worry about > it. If they had updated at the time, they would have had 3 years of > engineering and testing before the release and _had_ 1.5. >
Sorry about the obvious (possibly dumb) question. Can't we just import a copy of dejagnu each year and install it as part of the source tree ? I can't imagine installing dejagnu is adding a huge amount of time to build and regression test time ? Advantage is that everyone is guaranteed to be on the same version. I fully expect resistance due to specific issues with specific versions of tcl and expect, but if folks aren't aware of this ..... regards Ramana
