Modern development environment on dated RHEL

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:12:41PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> 1. Yes it is
> http://press.redhat.com/2008/07/24/red-hat-enterprise-linux-47-released-today/
> 
> 2. Only for development. We have a specific environment for deployment,
> compiling and testing the end product (which is a good idea anyhow IMHO. You
> don't want the customers be affected by a specific build issue a single
> developer has).
> 
> 3. I'm afraid running everything with a VM will be too slow. I'm
> occasionally running an Ubuntu on a 2 years old laptop with Vista, and user
> experience is not so great.

It wastes resources. But lets you do the real work in a sane way.

> 
> 4. I'm not sure. It's problematic since ClearCase 6 is only supported by IBM
> on RHEL 4.7, and we don't have new CC licenses.

AHHH!

Only RHEL4.7 is supported. However do you think "a completely modified
(in a non-reproducable way) RHEL 4.7" is supported?

I suspect a VM is the cheapest way.

Is the problem only ClearCase itself, or the complete development
environment?

If only ClearCase: do you actually use it in the filesystem-like method?

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