...
Computers are replaced as frequently as refrigerators by people who don't
care how quickly it loads a page or makes ice: when it stops turning on.
Those people are probably not upgrading their refrigerator firmware
all that often either. They may not want a major new OS release.
They might install an update/backport of a particular app.
There is a group of people who want the latest-and-greatest software
on old or small hardware, but they're necessarily the crowd you're
describing here.
m
I think you mean 'not necessarily'. I agree, though I know we dealt with
a lot of this in our 'bzr python-compatibility' discussions. In that
particular case it was "we don't want to upgrade the OS, or even the
system libraries/python version, but we do want to upgrade a given
application". Which is a different level than "we don't want to upgrade
our hardware, but we do want to upgrade all of the OS and applications."
Certainly it is a bit different when one upgrade is $$ and the other is
free.
Still, it seems an open question for how to handle users that want the
latest-and-greatest X, but don't want the latest-and-greatest Y, even
though X depends on Y.
John
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