Just because it's inconvenient to support an OS doesn't mean support should be dropped. CentOS 3 is *old*. CentOS 6 hasn't even been out for a year. CentOS 5 is still actively released and widely used.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> What kind of difficulty? >>> 5 isn't dropped yet, is it? >> >> At least I fail at compiling Drizzle on a standard Centos 5. We >> already depend on too new GCC, bison, autotools... Also we don't >> provide any binary packages for it. You can install "backported" >> packages like gcc44 but I stopped at bison because it would have >> replaced too many dependencies. (I think it was bison. Anyway, I tried >> and gave up.) > > CentOS 5 is *old* > If you run such an old distro, you should not complain when new > software can't be compiled easily IMO. > > -- > Olaf > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Eric Bergen [email protected] http://www.ebergen.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
