Sven, I know what you are talking about. Frankly I make an effort to ensure that the latest version of Metacello continues to run on older versions of Squeak/Pharo/GemStone because I know that it doesn't always make sense to port perfectly good production apps to the latest version of a platform ... With that said, I did have to "drop support" of Pharo1.0 because I couldn't get it to run on travis:) Dale ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu> | To: "Discusses Development of Pharo" <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> | Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:23:26 AM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Latest vm on Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS | | | On 23 May 2013, at 19:15, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote: | | > Am 23.05.2013 um 18:41 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe | > <sven@stfx.eu>: | > | >> BTW, 8.04 expired just 2 weeks ago, and Pharo 2.0 was released | >> before that ;-) | > | > The LTS support expired two weeks ago. LTS does mostly include | > security fixes not kernel backports. So installing your 08.04 on a | > modern machine might not work. And installing the newest virtual | > machine inside 08.04. might not work either. You should stay with | > old stuff :) | > | > Norbert | | I feel old ;-) | | No seriously, it is really strange how these things evolve: one day | you install a production machine and then you are happy that it | keeps on running fine for months and months and then years and | years, and then suddenly you no longer dare to upgrade or reboot it. | Especially for systems that are required to run 24/7/365. | | Sven |