On 2/6/15 3:58 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
... except that the support for GnuPG 2.0.x is already in Enigmail.
You're misunderstanding who I'm talking about when I say "we're caught
flat-footed." I don't mean us-the-developers. I mean us-the-community.
If 1.4 gets EOLed there's going to be a mad rush of people trying to
upgrade, and then that tidal flood you're worried about *will* happen.
You're contradicting decades of experience with users being dragged
kicking and screaming to upgrade to new versions of things, long after
the one they're using is EOL. How many requests for help do we get on
gnupg-users related to prehistoric versions of PGP, for example?
And I sincerely doubt that Werner is going to yank the rug out from
under the community on a 1.4.x EOL in any case. So I find your scenario
here very dubious.
If that was the only reason for doing this, it would still be sufficient
-- IMO -- to justify the decision.
Ok, so this move is at least partially about encouraging users to move
off of 1.4.x, and AFAICS is a done deal in any case. That's different
from what we were told, but it's neither my decision, nor my problem. :)
Doug
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