Re: [platform-releng-dev] M7/RC1 Regression: Launcher fails on RHEL6

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Oberhuber, Martin
<Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mickael,
>
>
>
> The fix is likely small and riskless, and I’ll try to contribute something
> but I’ll probably not get to that before Friday due to other priorities (and
> after RC2 it’s really getting late).
>
>
>
> I understand that the dev team has to put priorities in place (on the
> reference platforms). On the other hand, the plan also says “we expect that
> Eclipse works fine on other current Java VM and OS versions”. I don’t even
> see a minimum GTK version explicitly mentioned in the plan (like we had in
> earlier plans). And I do think that especially in the enterprise world with
> its slow adoption cycles, having REL6 supported would still be a significant
> asset in terms of community adoption.

Not Oxygen release related but keeping GTK 2.x support is such a drain
for any change in SWT that I would like to see it being dropped in
Photon. Or someone should step in to fix Gtk 2.24 to work with older
Cairo versions as shipped in RHEL 6 so we can at least remove the
non-cairo based drawing (quite a few cases where mixture of cairo and
gdk drawing created bugs).

>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> --
>
> Martin Oberhuber, SMTS / Product Owner – Development Tools, Wind River
>
>
>
> From: "platform-releng-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx"
> <platform-releng-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of "mistria@xxxxxxxxxx"
> <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "Eclipse list." <platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 17:52
> To: "Eclipse list." <platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [platform-releng-dev] M7/RC1 Regression: Launcher fails on
> RHEL6
>
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> (Not helping at fixing your issue)
>
> The project plan doesn't mention RHEL6 is supported, and the first supported
> version of RHEL is RHEL7:
> https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=eclipse
>
> So I guess it's relatively fine to see such issues in RHEL6, even that late.
> And even if you fix a few of them, the fact that it's not supported makes
> that it's likely that you face some other issues on RHEL6.
>
> That said, if you can provide patches that widens the compatibility range
> without reducing quality or increasing maintenance effort, there is probably
> no reason to refuse those.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> platform-releng-dev mailing list
> platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from
> this list, visit
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-releng-dev



-- 
Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse Team