Re: [IMP-dev] Policy for versions of IMP dependencies
To: Ben Webb <>
Subject: Re: [IMP-dev] Policy for versions of IMP dependencies
From: Barak Raveh <>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:52:09 -0700
Cc: List for IMP development <>
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I had 2-3 years in mind :) quite an arbitrary figure though.Â
It's just that flawed backward compatibility is usually not due to amazingÂtechnologicalÂbreakthroughs we cannot live with out, but probably due to some package changing the name of function X to function Y, or a few #include statements that need to be altered...
I also think we should maintain some backward compatibility, perhaps
replace the word "support latest e.g. ubuntu" with "support versions of
ubuntu from last XX years". We may require some new dependenciews here
and there, but we don't want users to have to update their entire system
every six months (or even a year) in order to use IMP.
Well, if "XX" is more than 1.05 then we have the current situation. ;) (CentOS 6 was released Jul 10, 2011.) Are you suggesting XX should be 1?
    Ben
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