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

[Gerald Needell]

WIll the current versions of these repositories continue to be available or will they disappear?

We are supporting ongoing projects using rtems4.9 and CentOs5 and will be for many years to come.  We also can use Centos6 for building the rtems4.9 applications, but we will continue using rtems4.9 for these projects.  We have our "frozen" development systems preserved and archived, so we don't need them at rtems.org, but it was nice to know they were available.  Just curious what dropping support means.


Thank you for all the work you do providing the toolchains.
- Jerry

On Mar 14, 2013, at 2:35 AM, 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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