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From:   Akemi Yagi <toracat@elrepo.org>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:35:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf scripts python: Let script to be python2 compliant
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:43 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Em Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:52:31AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:

> > So I'm somewhat concerned about perf supporting unsupported
> > distributions and this holding the code base back. RHEL7 was launched
> > 8 years ago (June 10, 2014) and full support ended 3 years ago (August
> > 6, 2019) [1]. Currently RHEL7 is in "Maintenance Support or
> > Maintenance Support 2" phase which is defined to mean [2]:
[...]

> In this specific supporting things that people report using, like was
> done in this case, isn't such a big problem.
>
> Someone reported a problem in a system they used, the author of the code
> in question posted a patch allowing perf to be used in such old systems,
> doesn't get in the way of newer systems, small patch, merged, life goes
> on.
>
> Sometimes some organizations are stuck with some distro till they can go
> thru re-certifications, bidding for new hardware, whatever, and then
> they want to continue using the latest perf on those systems because
> they want to benefit from new features we're working on that work on
> such systems. If the cost is small, like in this case, I see no problems
> to have perf working on such older systems.
>
> - Arnaldo

Just wanted to make a note about the "old" systems.

While RHEL 7 might be regarded as "old" in general, it may not be so
in the world of Enterprise Linux. A graph of EPEL mirror stats [1],
while it is from about a year ago, shows EL 7 (RHEL 7 and its
rebuilds) has a huge user base and was still growing quite fast.

By the way, my main workstation runs RHEL 7. ;-)

Akemi

[1] https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/1447224008831811588