Re: [IMP-dev] Policy for versions of IMP dependencies

[Barak Raveh <barak.raveh@gmail.com>]

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...

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Ben Webb <" target="_blank">ben@salilab.org> wrote:

On 07/30/2012 04:35 PM, Barak Raveh wrote:

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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