Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Rogers <> | Date | Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:54:37 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf scripts python: Let script to be python2 compliant |
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:35 PM Akemi Yagi <toracat@elrepo.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:43 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo > <acme@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Em Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:52:31AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu: > > > > So I'm somewhat concerned about perf supporting unsupported > > > distributions and this holding the code base back. RHEL7 was launched > > > 8 years ago (June 10, 2014) and full support ended 3 years ago (August > > > 6, 2019) [1]. Currently RHEL7 is in "Maintenance Support or > > > Maintenance Support 2" phase which is defined to mean [2]: > [...] > > > In this specific supporting things that people report using, like was > > done in this case, isn't such a big problem. > > > > Someone reported a problem in a system they used, the author of the code > > in question posted a patch allowing perf to be used in such old systems, > > doesn't get in the way of newer systems, small patch, merged, life goes > > on. > > > > Sometimes some organizations are stuck with some distro till they can go > > thru re-certifications, bidding for new hardware, whatever, and then > > they want to continue using the latest perf on those systems because > > they want to benefit from new features we're working on that work on > > such systems. If the cost is small, like in this case, I see no problems > > to have perf working on such older systems. > > > > - Arnaldo > > Just wanted to make a note about the "old" systems. > > While RHEL 7 might be regarded as "old" in general, it may not be so > in the world of Enterprise Linux. A graph of EPEL mirror stats [1], > while it is from about a year ago, shows EL 7 (RHEL 7 and its > rebuilds) has a huge user base and was still growing quite fast.
So if RedHat don't care to support it, why as developers should we?
> By the way, my main workstation runs RHEL 7. ;-)
So you need new tools that are broken so you can give pressure to whoever is subjecting you to out-of-date distributions to pull their fingers out and fix this ;-) You may also want to think about the security of your system.
Thanks, Ian
> Akemi > > [1] https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/1447224008831811588
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