No need to drop any platform as long as there are contributors can provide enough support for
it.
Every individual can have his or her own prefer.
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在 2012-6-18，下午8:42，Ji Yan <yanji.yj@gmail.com> 写道：
> So if there is any possibility to drag build machine OS back to an older
> version, e.g. RHEL 5 or SLED 10? So that we could make AOO runs on RHEL 5
> or SLED 10
>
> 2012/6/18 Herbert Duerr <hdu@apache.org>
>
>> On 18.06.2012 10:37, Ji Yan wrote:
>>
>>> According to build guide[1], gcc 4.2.3 is the current reference compiler
>>> which means Linux build should be compiled against RedHat Enterprise
>>> Linux(RHEL) 6 or SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop(SLED) 11. So I'm wondering
>>> if we should drop OS support for RHEL5 and SLED 10?
>>>
>>> The fact is that AOO 3.4 release build is unable to be launched in neither
>>> RHEL5 nor SLED 10. Should we update system requirement and installation
>>> guide?
>>>
>>
>> In my opinion we should try to run on on RHEL5 or SLED10 unless there are
>> new technical requirements which make running it not feasible anymore.
>> AFAIK if we build the binaries on a suitable older platform (e.g. RHEL5 or
>> Centos5 instead of e.g. Ubuntu 12.04) then the binaries should work almost
>> anywhere as nowadays backward compatibility of Linux binaries is a widely
>> shared goal.
>>
>> Herbert
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> Thanks & Best Regards, Yan Ji
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