This change came *after* discussion and +1's from multiple developers. We can certainly change direction on this but it's not like I've jumped the gun. We talked it out.
B. On 6 October 2011 19:31, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks all, I've pushed the change to 1.1.x. make check and futon all >> pass; review would still be nice. :) I simply reverted the two >> commits. >> >> B. >> > > That was awfully quick. :/ I would prefer to make this a social > contract by doing something along the lines of requiring people to run > ./configure --yes-really-give-me-1.8.5 > > Removing support completely seems awfully counter productive. >
