[CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

[Cliff Pratt]

Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the
latest release.

Cheers,

Cliff


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

>
> ---- John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> > On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote:
> > > My understanding was that CentOS was generally about a year
> out-of-date.
> >
> >
> > When a major RHEL version is released, the major.minor versions of most
> > all components are frozen for the life cycle of that major release, this
> > ensures package compatability, so if something is released for EL6 it
> > can expect to run with any EL6.x update.
>
> OK, so since RHEL 6.0 was released on 11/10/2010, we get eclipse 3.6 which
> was released on 6/23/2010 (according to Wikipedia)
> and we can only get 3.6.x updates until RHEL 7.0 is release. If RHEL 7.0
> was released today, eclipse would jump to 4.3 (ignoring any other
> complications) which was released on 6/26/2013.
>
> Got it.
> Thanks
>
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