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

[Gerald Needell]

Ralf,
Thank you for the clarifications. I don't have any concern with the end of support for CentsOS5.

We can now build our rtems4.9 application on CentOS6 and as long as we can do that we are all set.
Your proposed drop of support for rtems4.9 will become an issue for us at the end of life for CentOS6 since it would mean no future toolchains to support it on newer OS releases.
Is that correct? I'm not objecting. I just want to be sure understand the implications.

Jerry
On Mar 14, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:

> On 03/14/2013 12:38 PM, Gerald Needell wrote:
>> WIll the current versions of these repositories continue to be available or will they disappear?
> I am just trying to evaluate possibilities to cut down the work load building the toolchains has on me and to simplify the rpm.specs.
> 
> So far, nothing has been decided ;)
> 
> Just to mention one number: I am currently building rpms for 44 OS/rtems-versions combinations - That's close to being unmaintainable.
> 
>> We are supporting ongoing projects using rtems4.9 and CentOs5 and will be for many years to come.
> 
> Then you'll likely be facing issues in Q1/2014, when CentOS5 will enter its "maintainance update" phase ;)
> 
> >  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.
> For now, "dropping" to me means:
> 
> Removing the corresponding configurations from my build and repository maintainance scripts and to stop actively working on the corresponding rpm.specs.
> 
> 
> This would mean
> * No updated rpms for affected configurations.
> * Wrt. rtems-4.8/9: No spec-file bug fixes/updates.
> * Wrt. CentOS5: Removing all support for CentOS5 from all rpm.specs and
> rebase the rpm.specs on newer rpms' features/conventions.
> 
> Whether to remove the yum/rpm-repositories from rtems.org would be a different and independent matter.
> 
> Ralf
>