RFC: Drop toolchain support for rtems4.8, rtems4.9 and CentOS5?

[Matthew J Fletcher]

Ralf,

We use a mix of CentOS5/6. Would you consider branching the RPM build
scripts so you can use fun new stuff in for 6 hosts but keep the old
methods for 5 hosts ?
 On 14 Mar 2013 06:40, "Ralf Corsepius" <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to drop/discontinue supporting the toolchain repositories for
>
> * CentOS5:
> CentOS5/RHEL5 is increasingly showing its age. Continuing to support it
> requires me to use anachronistic constructs in rpm.specs, which otherwise
> could be avoided and make life slightly easier for me.
>
> Q: Is anybody still using CentOS5 as RTEMS development hosts?
>
>
> * rtems4.8, rtems4.9 (All host OSes):
> I do not see much use in keeping these. RTEMS-4.8 and 4.9 and their
> toolchains haven't seen any activities for a long time and are de-facto
> dead.
>
> Keeping the packages, to me only means carrying around historic ballast of
> questionable value, I'd rather get rid off, ASAP.
>
>
> Opinions, comments?
>
> Ralf
>
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