Kolab Community Edition V3 for RHEL5?

[Rob Arends]

Hi Georg,

Thanks for that.

Note that RHEL5 and 6 are now supported for 10 years each, see below, so
RHEL5 still has 4 years to go.
But I'm looking for a short lead time on this pilot, and I'd rather see you
put effort into the product than various OS builds. :-)

Looks like I'll be building a new RHEL6 server then !!  :-(

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Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org [mailto:kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org]
On Behalf Of Georg C. F. Greve
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 5:46 AM
To: kolab-users at kolab.org
Cc: Rob Arends
Subject: Re: Kolab Community Edition V3 for RHEL5?

Hi Rob,

On Sunday 03 March 2013 01.16:28 Rob Arends wrote:
> My first email to this list.

Welcome to Kolab. :)


> I have studied your Groupware product and it looks impressive.

Thanks a lot, it's very motivating for everyone to get some positive
feedback. 
We are, after all, releasing this to be used and for everyone to be able to 
adopt in their own ways.


> Is it possible the community edition could be made for RHEL5?

That would be rather difficult, I understand, as parts of the stack have 
dependencies that would be hard to satisfy on RHEL5. So it would involve 
substantial effort, and for a platform that is slowly being phased out.

So is it possible? Yes, with some effort.

But work invested into this would be work not available to improve the 
technology and provide new features for everyone. So typically we would not 
undertake that particular effort unless there was a real business interest 
behind it.

With best regards,
Georg


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