On 16/06/2015 10:54, Steve Loughran wrote:
One reason at least: PB 2.5.0 has no support for Solaris SPARC. 2.6.1 does.
to be ruthless, that's not enough reason to upgrade branch-2, due to the
transitive pain it makes all the way down.
I completely get your point, however we are faced with two pretty
equally unpalatable options, either fork PB 2.5.0 and add support for
Solaris SPARC or switch to 2.6.1.
Although as I've found out, even though 2.6.1 claims to support Solaris
SPARC it doesn't, and needs a patch (albeit a small one) to get it to
work :-/ From what I can gather, cross-platform support in PB breaks
fairly regularly,
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Alan Burlison
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