[Linux-ha-dev] configure.in kludge

[Alan Robertson]

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2007-03-02T09:58:31, Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> wrote:
> 
>> I suppose we ought to at least putting the date into text so we can
>> expire these out once they've been fixed for a few years.
> 
> Well, SCMs are pretty good at telling such dates.
> 
> I was really just riding my pet peeve of supporting age old
> distributions instead of having a coherent tip across the entire OS to
> update to, w/o needing to do legacy kludges. An issue I have which very
> clearly not only is restricted to heartbeat. ;-)

HA customers are notoriously slow to change things that are working, and
often have machines that are up for years at a time.  I think that we
need to avoid breaking things for 3-5 years.  Beyond 5 years, I probably
don't care.  But, NOT 18 months.  That's not the same as saying Novell
or whoever will provide support such things, but there's no compelling
reason to break them either.

In addition, as you have pointed out to me on other topics, I think we
have more important issues to worry about.

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    Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>

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