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Re: dejagnu version update?


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:36:47AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 09/16/2015 10:25 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 16/09/15 17:14, Mike Stump wrote:
> >>On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> >>wrote:
> >>>Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> writes:
> >>>
> >>>>The software presently works with 1.4.4 and there arenât any
> >>>>changes that require anything newer.
> >>>
> >>>SLES 12 has 1.4.4.
> >>
> >>Would be nice to cover them as well, but their update schedule, 3-4
> >>years, means that their next update is 2018.  They didnât update to
> >>a 3 year old stable release of dejagnu for their last OS, meaning
> >>they are on a > 7 year update cycle.  I love embedded and really
> >>long term support cycles (20 years), but, donât think we should
> >>cater to the 20 year cycle just yet.  :-)  Since 7 is substantially
> >>longer than 2, I donât think we should worry about it.  If they had
> >>updated at the time, they would have had 3 years of engineering and
> >>testing before the release and _had_ 1.5.
> >>
> >
> >Sorry about the obvious (possibly dumb) question.
> >
> >Can't we just import a copy of dejagnu each year and install it as
> >part of the source tree ? I can't imagine installing dejagnu is
> >adding a huge amount of time to build and regression test time ?
> >Advantage is that everyone is guaranteed to be on the same version. I
> >fully expect resistance due to specific issues with specific versions
> >of tcl and expect, but if folks aren't aware of this .....
> That should work -- certainly that's the way we used to do things at Cygnus.
> Some of that code may have bitrotted as single tree builds have fallen
> out-of-favor through the years.
> 
> As to whether or  not its a good idea.  I'm torn -- I don't like copying
> code from other repos because of the long term maintenance concerns.

yeah, there's definitely history showing sharing code by coppying is not
a great idea e.g. top level files getting out of sync.  I'm hopefully
git submodules will make this better soon, but the UI isn't really great
yet.

> I'd rather just move to 1.5 and get on with things.  If some systems don't
> have a new enough version, I'm comfortable telling developers on those
> platforms that they need to update.  It's not like every *user* needs
> dejagnu, it's just for the testing side of things.

yeah, it seems like a poor idea to slow down progress we make for all
users to benefit a few people who want to develope on rather old
machines.

Trev

> 
> 
> jeff


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