On 31 May 2010, at 22:10, Sander Temme wrote: > I think this goes hand in hand with what operating system versions we will be > targeting for 2.4. We should inventory which versions of the libraries are > offered on each and then make the decision whether to accomodate:
I don't think that's our concern. The downstream distros are moving targets just as much as we are, and they'll each make their own decision on when to bundle our new releases. Upgrading a dependency is hardly going to be a showstopper! > It seems that 0.9.8 is still fairly prevalent, and dropping support for it in > 2.3/2.4 might hurt adoption in the near term. That is, prevalent based on decisions made some time ago, probably in many cases at the time they first moved from 2.0 to 2.2. -- Nick Kew
