Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 'Can't Avoid' fixes in current GNUradio 3.7.9.2

[Lamar Owen]

On 04/28/2016 01:42 PM, West, Nathan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Lamar Owen <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Does anyone know of any fixes since 3.7.5 that might be considered
>     'can't avoid?'
>
>
> Personal opinion incoming:
> Normally I strongly advocate for working off of the latest release 
> possible, but this is my exception. Two thoughts:
> 1) If you don't know of a good reason to move from 3.7.5, why are you 
> pressuring an entire distribution to go against their policy?

You should read the bug report at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329752 and pay close 
attention to who closed it and for what reason.  Yes, I closed my own 
bug, and closed it as WONTFIX, until I could gather data on whether the 
RFE was even useful or not.  If there are no 'can't avoid' fixes, then I 
won't file another RFE, simple as that (I can build my own packages 
should I care to do so.....).

This is not my first rodeo, figuratively speaking.  I'm not trying to 
pressure anyone.

> 2) A major selling point (I think) of RHEL and by extension Fedora is 
> the loooong stable cycle. If they upgrade to latest versions just 
> because they are shinier then that goes against the distro philosophy. 
> I think it makes more sense to either upgrade to the latest release of 
> the distribution or build from source
I've used CentOS a long time (3.x days, and I still have a 2.1 install 
running).  I know about the reasons why to use such things. And I know 
that there are cases where upgrades that break ABI (especially at the 
point in the cycle where 7.x is right now) aren't necessarily a problem, 
Firefox ESR for instance, which has gone several versions since the 
upstream RHEL 7 release (heh, Firefox 38 ESR is even the published 
version for EL6, and that started way earlier).  It is all dependent 
upon 'can't avoid' and that was the question I asked.

I'm gathering information, not trying to pressure anyone to do anything.