On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:07:10 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> why 50%? u REALLY think people upgrade their distribution instantly? > i don't know what bizarre world you live in but they don't. they > often lag behind the actual release (in fact the majority do i'd say) > by at least 3-6 months or more. the majority of possible users may > very conceivably be on a distro released 6 or 12 months ago. reality > is we have to work for them. so that means working with what is out > TODAY (or even last year). That's what I'm always saying in my diatribes against depending on bleeding edge libraries. Things have to work TOADY, on distros most people have TODAY. Some (like me) even have the nerve to stick with long term stable distros (Ubuntu LTS in my case, or Debian stable for example). How dare they! There is a bunch of things I would like to try in E's SVN, but can't, coz they depend on bleeding edge stuff that I don't want to upgrade to. Oddly enough, it's mostly newer autofoo and friends the seems to be the problems. I'm the head of some other open source project, and it's important to my users that they can compile and use it today. I even did a survey about which distros and what versions are important to them (including 32 vs 64 bit). If that project compiles and runs fine under a stock Ubuntu LTS install, then it will work fine everywhere that is important to my users and fellow developers. So that's what I do, develop it under a stock Ubuntu LTS install. That's the same computer I want E stuff to run on. I'm not gonna pollute it with bleeding edge libraries, that's just gonna cause problems for others. In particular, I'll one day want to use emotion, but apparently it dislikes my installed version of VLC, even though it passes the autofoo checks. sigh -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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