On 11/08/2017 05:11 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> Do you know why I prefer RHEL/SL 6 or 7 as my primary development
> environment?  That's the platforms I'm targeting as the oldest supported
> releases.  And that code will run on future major releases of RHEL/SL as
> well as the current Fedora releases.  Had I used Fedora 26 for primary
> development, I'd be hitting all kinds of challenges when trying to make
> this run on RHEL 6 or 7.

Hi David,

That is a wonderful idea.  I wish everyone else would do it
to, but the don't.  Instead, their stuff won't run
on RHEL and Clones.  I have requested that various
developers not use the latest, greatest for dependencies,
but the result was a lot of ... Well I got no where.

When I finally get off RHEL and Clones, I will indeed place
SL into a Virtual Machine for such purposes.  Before upgrading
from SL 6 to SL7, I had a VM of 7 for about six months.  I
did not test too well.  SL 7's upgrade was a nightmare,
but something I really needed to do.

I have been trying to pound a square peg into a round hole
for too long.

RHEL and Clones is really well suited where you need to computer
to operate like an appliance, not for general innovation,
which is what I was/am trying to force it to do.

-T