[Sugar-devel] [sugar-build] Phasing out Fedora 18 support

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 2 July 2013 21:01, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It's not a change. Since I announced it, the policy with sugar-build has
> > been to support only the latest version of a distro.
> >
> > If you want to change that you will have to figure out how to resource
> it,
> > I'm personally not interested in maintaining support for multiple distro
> > version if not for a short time to allow people to upgrade... It's
> already
> > complicated enough as it is.
>
> You realise it's not all about you and the world doesn't revolved
> around just you. The current stable releases for both SoaS and OLPC
> are both based on Fedora 18 and while F-19 is out today it does take
> time for people to migrate. The current devel release for OLPC is on
> Fedora 18 as well. I can understand phasing out Fedora 17 as it's EOL
> in a month but while it might be easy for you to click you fingers and
> move on a lot of activity developers take quite some time and will
> remain on Fedora 18 for some time because that's what the current OLPC
> stable release is based upon.
>

I'm not sure activity developers generally need to use sugar-build. Unless
they want to hack on sugar itself or to use some new API (web activities
for example) packages should work just fine. My main goal with sugar-build
is to make it easy to participate to the development of the Sugar core.


> I'm not sure what the problem with is with F-18.... the current stable
> release of sugar supports it just fine.
>

Master is pretty different from stable and we need to already build several
external packages on F18 to keep things working.

Anyway all that I'm saying is that maintaining sugar-build support for
three distribution is already using too much of my time. That's pretty much
the best I can do. If we want to increase that number, we need other people
to jump in.
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