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List:       pidgin-devel
Subject:    Re: Summer of Code
From:       John Bailey <rekkanoryo () rekkanoryo ! org>
Date:       2008-03-26 16:41:14
Message-ID: 47EA7CAA.1050302 () rekkanoryo ! org
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Luke Schierer wrote:
> Basically, Redhat is the only one I know actually *supporting* software=

> after the upstream has dropped it.  We are, thanks to Stu's efforts,
> doing something lesser, we are worrying about if our software works wit=
h
>  obsolete libraries.

Ok, this makes sense and answers my question quite well.

> My thought was, how long are those obsolete libraries supported by
> _anyone_?  From that I hoped to derive an idea of how long it is
> reasonable to assume a meaningful number of people are using a given
> obsolete library version, and thus how long we might want to think abou=
t
> it.

Following the other branch that discusses the timeframes, 3 years does se=
em a
reasonable timeframe to support an obsoleted library version.  If we were=
 to
adopt that now, it would obviously cause some chaos to ensue.  However, a=
s Stu
indirectly suggested, it is something we could definitely do once we go t=
o 3.0.0
and move forward from there.

> It seems to me that after a given span, we're sort of encouraging peopl=
e
> not to update their system by enabling them to continue using "new"
> software on it.

I agree entirely.

John


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