Re: [Emc-developers] [DISCUSS] Proposal: Drop Hardy support

[Charles S. <ch...@st...>]

On 8/17/2013 12:00 PM, Michael Haberler wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately this is not an option which can be done with anywhere
> realistic effort. I do not deny this for fun, but it is an
> unreasonable request on our time.
> 
> It will both disable userland threads (PCI support uses them), and
> make absurd workarounds necessary to keep kthreads working (because
> the shared memory driver usage relies on udev too).

Perhaps this is being looked at the wrong way.

If (modern) LinuxCNC requires uDev support, then rather than try to make
it work without on Hardy, what about flipping this around and require
anyone who wants the latest and greatest to install uDev (which is
presumably installable on Hardy via source or perhaps even a back-port
repo somewhere).

I realize you can't just "apt-get install", but back in The Old Days
(TM), one didn't just click on a few buttons in the package manager to
install things like ssh, or pam with shadow passwords (anyone remember
building these from source because they weren't included in your
distribution)?

Is there anything other than uDev that's a show stopper for builds on
older platforms?

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
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