On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:07:14PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 07:40:22 +0200 Marcus Meissner
wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:50:46PM -0400, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
Carlos E. R. escribió:
It happens also with cars and anything else.
Exactly..is called "product lifecycle" ;-)
There is a moment when a car is no longer manufactured, but they still make spares. Then even spares are no longer made, then the spares in storage are spent, then the last users have to get used spares from the dumps,
if PHP4 were a car, I can say it is no longer manufactured and the last spare parts are in the way to the dealers, but they are not produced in serie but by small amounts from time to time.
thus suse (the car dealer) has to stop providing it because they can't get it upstream (the car manufacturers).
following your analogy, is worth to mention that the "suse dealer" has supported "the car" for longer time than the other "major dealers" and is time to phase it out once for all because "the car" manteniance is causing techs trouble when they should devote their time improving the "new equivalent" model, that has **waaay** less problems and is supported by the manufacturer.
We still support it for: - SLES 8 (until November 2007) - SLES 9 (until around 2011)
btw...
Ciao, Marcus
Now that really gives a kick :-) Basically we just found out that even the "we don't want to spend time for it for further support" argument is ridiculously false even within the company. Supporting it for _some_ version of the distro means somebody has to work and it means there will be patches for big issues. So the only question left is if they are made available for the whole community _somewhen_ (maybe later).
This is really a neat thread ;-)
We just do not have it in _new_ products. So what is the issue? Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org