[Xapian-discuss] perl bindings

[Reini Urban]

2010/11/23 Tim Brody <tdb2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:22:38 -0000, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:39:47AM +0000, Tim Brody wrote:
>>> I've built RPMs for RHEL5/CentOS5 (with a different signing key) here:
>>> http://rpm.eprints.org/xapian/5/
>>> RHEL4 is eol and shouldn't be used.
>>
>> Hmm, RedHat say otherwise:
>>http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/summit/tburke_1050_rhel_roadmap.pdf
>>
>>    customer issues of all severity, proactive security, limited hardware
>>    enablement, performance enhancements to enable long-term viability as a
>>    virtualized guest on RHEL5 & 6
>>
>> According to that, even RHEL3 isn't EOL yet!
>>
>> But if nobody wants to maintain such packages (or even fund someone to do
>> it), it's kind of irrelevant what the status of the OS is.

I'm still forced to use RHEL4 on my production xapian server.
In the cooperate environment this will not change in the next 3 years.
I'm only updating xapian yearly now.

> Hmm, well there's no harm in leaving the packages online but flag them as
> unsupported/out of date. I'm about to retire my last server running RHEL4
> and it's a long time since I even tried compiling xapian on it.
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Reini Urban
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