On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:36 PM, <franz-joseph.barthold@tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
And please allow me some other hint. Being engaged in education, I like to foster the usage of Linux in my courses. Trying to convince students to shift from Windows to Linux, openSUSE Leap 42.3 (among other distributions) is the correct choice rather than Tumbleweed. But the software stack for my programming courses should be fairly recent (see make, bison, mc) and consistent (doxygen, doxywizard).
I think it would be good if students also learned that the latest is not always the best. One must pick the tool that, all things considered, meets the job best. This goes not only for versions of tools but for sexy-program-language-o-the month. I do agree that sometimes Leap seems to lag farther behind than one might expect. I usually add the devel: repos for the things I want to be rather current. But even that is not a solution. devel:tcl being a case in point. But, then again, it is not currently a popular language. So I am not surprised it lags behind. So I use my home: in OBS to try to stay current. But I also fall behind... Open source is just too active ;) -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-programming+owner@opensuse.org