So one of the things moving from EPEL to RHEL in EL-6 is the TurboGears 2
stack. We recently had TG-2.1 pushed into EPEL-5 testing. this is newer than
what is in EL-6. TG-2.1 broke a couple of things in Moksha(community)
because its using internal api's that changed, the public api is stable. but
it brings up the maintenance burden for when we start migrating to EL-6 on app
servers. Moksha would ethier need to work with 2.0 and 2.1? not sure if its
doable. or the version for EL-6 will need to use the old api. or something
else ive not mentioned/thought of.
another option is replace the TG stack. which then means for the life of us
using EL-6 we will need to maintain the TG stack in the infra repo and any
packages we use on top of it. it also means we cant put TG apps into EPEL-6
since they wont work.
alternatively we could use some fedora app servers where we can put everything
into fedora. maintain an updated stack in fedora, but have the additional
cost of greater maintenance needed for the fedora based servers.
I don't have the answer but we need to start the discussion now so that we
have a plan and dont get blindsided by this.
Dennis
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