On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:36:47AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > On 09/16/2015 10:25 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > > > > > >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 ..... > That should work -- certainly that's the way we used to do things at Cygnus. > Some of that code may have bitrotted as single tree builds have fallen > out-of-favor through the years. > > As to whether or not its a good idea. I'm torn -- I don't like copying > code from other repos because of the long term maintenance concerns.
yeah, there's definitely history showing sharing code by coppying is not a great idea e.g. top level files getting out of sync. I'm hopefully git submodules will make this better soon, but the UI isn't really great yet. > I'd rather just move to 1.5 and get on with things. If some systems don't > have a new enough version, I'm comfortable telling developers on those > platforms that they need to update. It's not like every *user* needs > dejagnu, it's just for the testing side of things. yeah, it seems like a poor idea to slow down progress we make for all users to benefit a few people who want to develope on rather old machines. Trev > > > jeff
